Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data
Sep, 20058 pages
Published in:
- Eur.Phys.J.A 29 (2006) 27-31
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- nucl-th/0509092 [nucl-th]
Report number:
- CERN-PH-TH-2005-183
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Abstract:
The large elliptic flow observed in Au-Au collisions at RHIC is often put forward as a compelling evidence for the formation of a strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma. The main argument is that the measured elliptic flow is as large as the value given by fluid-dynamics models that assume complete thermalization. It is argued that this claim may not be justified, since a detailed examination of experimental data rather suggests that the system created is not fully equilibrated at the time when anisotropic flow develops.- 24.10.Nz
- 25.75.Ld
- anisotropic flow
- hydrodynamics
- out-of-equilibrium dynamics
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