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Rotating quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-02-28 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the rotational collective motion of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the widely-adopted AMPT (A Multi-Phase Transport) model. The global angular momentum, the average vorticity carried by the quark-gluon plasma, and the locally defined vorticity fields are computed for Au+Au collisions, with detailed information of their time evolution, spatial distribution, as well as the dependence on beam energy and collision centrality.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06580,
  title  = {Rotating quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions},
  author = {Yin Jiang and Zi-Wei Lin and Jinfeng Liao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06580},
  year   = {2017}
}