2017/05/31 by Mubarak Alqahtani, Mohammad Nopoush, Radoslaw Ryblewski +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.96.044910
published as Phys. Rev. C 96, 044910 (2017) · 31 pages, 9 figures. v2 - improvements to HBT calculation + typos fixed; PRC version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.05808
arxiv created 2017/10/23 · arxiv updated 2017/10/26
We compare phenomenological results from 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP) with experimental data collected in LHC 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. In particular, we present comparisons of particle spectra, average transverse momentum, elliptic flow, and HBT radii. The aHydroQP model relies on the introduction of a single temperature-dependent quasiparticle mass which is fit to lattice QCD data. By taking moments of the resulting Boltzmann equation, we obtain the dynamical equations used in the hydrodynamic stage which include the effects of both shear and bulk viscosities. At freeze-out, we use anisotropic Cooper-Frye freeze-out performed on a fixed-energy-density hypersurface to convert to hadrons. To model the production and decays of the hadrons we use THERMINATOR 2 which is customized to sample from ellipsoidal momentum-space distribution functions. Using smooth Glauber initial conditions, we find very good agreement with many heavy-ion collision observables.