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Scaling of elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2012-08-30 v1

Abstract

The common interpretation of v2v_2 in heavy ion collisions is that it is produced by hydrodynamic flow at low transverse momentum and by parton energy loss at high transverse momentum. In this talk we discuss this interpretation in view of the dependence of v2v_2 with energy, rapidity and system size, and show that it might not be trivial to reconcile these models with the relatively simple scaling found in experiment

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@article{arxiv.1208.5996,
  title  = {Scaling of elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions},
  author = {Giorgio Torrieri and Barbara Betz and Miklos Gyulassy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5996},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Proceedings, CIPANP2012 talk Overlaps closely with poster, presented at Quark Matter 2012