Elliptic flow from partially thermalized heavy-ion collisions

2002/09/09 by Ulrich Heinz, Stephen M. H. Wong, Stephen M.H. Wong · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(02)01553-1

published as Nucl.Phys.A715:649-652,2003 · 4 pages (incl. 2 postscript figures); uses espcrc1.sty (included in submission). Talk given at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, June 18-24, 2002, to appear in the proceedings in Nucl. Phys. A

arxiv created 2002/09/09 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study to what extent the measured elliptic flow at RHIC constrains viscous deviations from ideal hydrodynamics. We solve a toy model where only transverse momenta are thermalized while the system undergoes longitudinal free-streaming. We show that RHIC data exclude such a model and thus require fast 3-dimensional thermalization.

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