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Hydrodynamics at RHIC and LHC: What have we learned?

Nuclear Theory 2013-12-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Fluid dynamical description of elementary particle collisions has a long history dating back to the works of Landau and Fermi. Nevertheless, it is during the last 10-15 years when fluid dynamics has become the standard tool to describe the evolution of matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. In this review I briefly describe the hydrodynamical models, what we have learned when analyzing the RHIC and LHC data using these models, and what the latest developments and challenges are.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1849,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics at RHIC and LHC: What have we learned?},
  author = {Pasi Huovinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1849},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

References added and typos corrected, corresponds to the published version, 22 pages, 14 figures

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