Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in ultra-relativistic U+U collisions

2004/11/30 by Ulrich Heinz, Anthony Kuhlman · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.132301

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.94:132301,2005 · 4 pages, incl. 5 figures. First figure of v1 removed due to space limitations. Title changed by journal request. Minor other changes and a few references added or updated. This version accepted by Physical Review Letters

arxiv created 2005/03/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Full-overlap U+U collisions provide significantly larger initial energy densities at comparable spatial deformation, and significantly larger deformation and volume at comparable energy density, than semicentral Au+Au collisions. We show quantitatively that this provides a long lever arm for studying the hydrodynamic behavior of elliptic flow in much larger and denser collision systems and the predicted non-linear path-length dependence of radiative parton energy loss.

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