Anisotropic flow: achievements, difficulties and expectations

2008/05/09 by S. A. Voloshin, Sergei A. Voloshin · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #Anisotropy #Flow (mathematics) #Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mechanics #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Optics #Physics #Psychology #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104014

published as J.Phys.G35:104014,2008 · Proceedings, Plenary talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb.2008

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Abstract

Anisotropic flow measurements play a crucial role in understanding the physics and bulk properties of the system created in heavy ion collisions. In this talk I briefly review the most important results obtained so far, recent developments in the analysis techniques and the interpretation of the results, and what should we expect next, both at RHIC and LHC. I also discuss event anisotropies sensitive to the strong parity violation effects.

Citations

• Elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at √s__{\rm NN}=200 GeV
• Effect of shear viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and Hanbury Brown–Twiss radii
• Novel Rapidity Dependence of Directed Flow in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Selection of special orientations in relativistic collisions of deformed heavy nuclei
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• Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC - Last Call for Predictions
• Viscosity Information from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions: How Perfect is the Fluid Observed at RHIC?
• Elliptic flow in the Gaussian model of eccentricity fluctuations
• Importance of correlations and fluctuations on the initial source eccentricity in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
• Fluctuating initial conditions in heavy ion collisions from the Glauber approach
• Trends in multiparticle production and some ‘predictions’ for pp and PbPb collisions at LHC

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