2004/03/15 by Ulrich Heinz, Peter F Kolb · 41 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Beam (structure) #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #Elliptic flow #Flow (mathematics) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Rapidity #Thermalisation #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/8/096
published in Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics 30(8), S1229-S1233 (IOP Publishing) · 5 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at Quark Matter 2004 (Oakland, Jan. 11-17, 2004). Proceedings to appear in a special volume of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
arxiv created 2004/03/15 · openalex publication_date 2004/07/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In Au+Au collisions at RHIC, elliptic flow was found to rapidly decrease as a function of rapidity. We argue that the origin of this phenomenon is incomplete thermalization of the initial fireball outside the midrapidity region and show that it can be quantitatively related to the analogous effect at midrapidity in peripheral collisions and in collisions at lower beam energies.