Kolb, P. F. and Huovinen, P. and Heinz, U. and Heiselberg, H. (2001) Elliptic flow at SPS and RHIC: from kinetic transport to hydrodynamics. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 500 (3-4). pp. 232-240. ISSN 0370-2693
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Anisotropic transverse flow is studied in Pb + Pb and Au + Au collisions at SPS and RHIC energies, The centrality and transverse momentum dependence at midrapidity of the elliptic flow coefficient nu (2) is calculated in the hydrodynamic and low density limits. Hydrodynamics is found to agree well with the RHIC data for semicentral collisions up to transverse momenta of 1-1.5 GeV/c, but it considerably overestimates the measured elliptic how at SPS energies. The low density limit LDL is inconsistent with the measured magnitude of nu (2) at RHIC energies and with the shape of its p(t)-dependence at both RHIC and SPS energies. The success of the hydrodynamic model points to very rapid thermalization in Au + Au collisions at RHIC and provides a serious challenge for kinetic approaches based on classical scattering of on-shell particles. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS; RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; TRANSVERSE COLLECTIVE FLOW; CENTRAL PB+PB COLLISIONS; PHASE-TRANSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; AU+AU COLLISIONS; REACTION PLANE; EXPANSION; relativistic heavy-ion collisions; elliptic flow |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2022 17:30 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2022 17:30 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/41741 |
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