Dissipative corrections to particle spectra and anisotropic flow from a saddle-point approximation to kinetic freeze out
Dec 30, 20136 pages
Published in:
- Eur.Phys.J.C 74 (2014) 2955
- Published: Jul 17, 2014
e-Print:
- 1312.7763 [nucl-th]
Report number:
- BI-TP-2013-025
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Abstract: (arXiv)
A significant fraction of the changes in momentum distributions induced by dissipative phenomena in the description of the fluid fireball created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions actually take place when the fluid turns into individual particles. We study these corrections in the limit of a low freeze-out temperature of the flowing medium, and we show that they mostly affect particles with a higher velocity than the fluid. For these, we derive relations between different flow harmonics, from which the functional form of the dissipative corrections could ultimately be reconstructed from experimental data.Note:
- v2 (accepted for publication): 11 pages, 3 figures
- particle: spectrum
- freeze-out: temperature
- flow: anisotropy
- heavy ion: scattering
- saddle-point approximation
- fluid
- dissipation
- momentum spectrum
- velocity
- fireball
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