2005/09/30 by Nicolas Borghini, N. Borghini · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Material Dynamics and Properties #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epja/i2005-10293-9
published as Eur.Phys.J. A29 (2006) 27-31 · 8 pages, 2 eps-figures, Talk given at the Workshop on QGP Thermalization (QGPTH05), Vienna, 10-12 Aug 2005
arxiv created 2005/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2006/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The large elliptic flow observed in Au-Au collisions at RHIC is often put forward as a compelling evidence for the formation of a strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma. The main argument is that the measured elliptic flow is as large as the value given by fluid-dynamics models that assume complete thermalization. It is argued that this claim may not be justified, since a detailed examination of experimental data rather suggests that the system created is not fully equilibrated at the time when anisotropic flow develops.