Differential elliptic flow prediction at the LHC from parton transport

2007/07/09 by Dénes Molnár, Denes Molnar, Molnar, Denes
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.1251

Short write-up for "Last Call for Predictions for Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC Workshop", May 29 - June 2, CERN, Geneva (barely 2 pages, 1 figure)

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Abstract

We predict how differential elliptic flow v2(pT) changes from RHIC to LHC collision energies (Pb+Pb at 5.5 TeV/nucleon), ASSUMING that the quark-gluon system created has a ``minimal'' shear viscosity eta/s = 1/(4*pi) at both RHIC and the LHC.

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