Anisotropic flow far from equilibrium
Dec, 201013 pages
Published in:
- Eur.Phys.J.C 71 (2011) 1612
e-Print:
- 1012.0899 [nucl-th]
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
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