Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

2013/01/13 by Ulrich Heinz, Ulrich W Heinz, Raimond Snellings · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102212-170540

published as Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 63 (2013) 123-151 · 38 pages (incl. 11 figures), 145 references. Invited review prepared for Annual Review in Nuclear and Particle Physics 63 (2013)

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Abstract

We review collective flow, its anisotropies, and its event-to-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, as well as the extraction of the specific shear viscosity of quark–gluon plasma from collective flow data collected in heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC and the LHC. We emphasize the similarities between the Big Bang of our universe and the Little Bangs created in heavy-ion collisions.

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