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Collective Flows in a Transport Approach

Nuclear Theory 2011-06-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We introduce a transport approach at fixed shear viscosity to entropy ratio \etas\etas to study the generation of collective flows in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Transport theory supplies a covariant approach valid also at large \etas\etas and at intermediate transverse momentum pTp_T, where deviations from equilibrium is no longer negligible. Such an approach shows that at RHIC energies a temperature dependent \etas\etas enhances significantly the v4/v22v_4/v_2^2 respect to the case of constant \etas\etas. Furthermore if NJL chiral dynamics is self-consistently implemented we show that it does not modify the relation between v2v_2 and \etas\etas.

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@article{arxiv.1009.2664,
  title  = {Collective Flows in a Transport Approach},
  author = {S. Plumari and V. Baran and M. Di Toro and V. Greco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2664},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2010, 21-26 June 2010 Las Londe Les Maures; to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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