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Elliptic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 2.76 TeV: Hybrid model assessment of the first data

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
  3. Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292 (Japan)

We analyze the elliptic flow parameter v{sub 2} in Pb+Pb collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN}) = 2.76 TeV and in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s{sub NN})=200 GeV using a hybrid model in which the evolution of the quark gluon plasma is described by ideal hydrodynamics with a state-of-the-art lattice QCD equation of state, and the subsequent hadronic stage by a hadron cascade model. For initial conditions, we employ Monte Carlo versions of the Glauber and the Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi models and compare results with each other. We demonstrate that the differential elliptic flow v{sub 2}(p{sub T}) hardly changes when the collision energy increases, whereas the integrated v{sub 2} increases due to the enhancement of mean transverse momentum. The amount of increase of both v{sub 2} and mean p{sub T} depends significantly on the model of initialization.

OSTI ID:
21596542
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 84; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English