Viscous Hydrodynamic Predictions for Nuclear Collisions at the LHC
Nuclear Theory
2010-01-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Hydrodynamic simulations are used to make predictions for the integrated elliptic flow coefficient v_2 in sqrt(s)=5.5 TeV lead-lead and sqrt(s)=14 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We predict a 10% increase in v_2 from RHIC to Pb+Pb at LHC, and v_2 ~ 0 in p+p collisions unless eta/s < 0.08.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.4588,
title = {Viscous Hydrodynamic Predictions for Nuclear Collisions at the LHC},
author = {Matthew Luzum and Paul Romatschke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4588},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures; v2: version accepted for publication in PRL