Anisotropic flow far from equilibrium

Dec, 2010
13 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 71 (2011) 1612
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BI-TP-2010-45

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We compute analytically the anisotropic flow in an expanding mixture of several species of relativistic massive particles. We find that a single collision per particle in average already leads to sizable elliptic flow, with mass ordering between the species.
Note:
  • 13 pages, 7 figures. v2: journal version (a few typos corrected, extra acknowledgments added)
  • 24.10.Jv
  • 25.75.Ld
  • particle: massive
  • flow: anisotropy
  • elliptic flow
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • Boltzmann equation: solution
  • numerical calculations