Scaling behavior of anisotropic flow harmonics in the far from equilibrium regime
Nuclear Theory
2018-10-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We consider the development of anisotropic flow in an expanding system of particles undergoing very few rescatterings, using a kinetic-theoretical description with a nonlinear collision term. We derive the scaling behaviors of the harmonic coefficients with the initial-state eccentricities and the mean number of rescatterings, and argue that hexagonal flow should follow a nontrivial behavior, different from that of the lower harmonics. Our findings should be observable in experimental data for small systems.
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@article{arxiv.1804.05729,
title = {Scaling behavior of anisotropic flow harmonics in the far from equilibrium regime},
author = {Nicolas Borghini and Steffen Feld and Nina Kersting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05729},
year = {2018}
}
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