Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2007-10-31
Phys.Rev.C77:044909,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
14 pages, 11 figures; Figures and discussion updated
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.044909
We simulate the dynamics of Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with a hybrid model that treats the dense early quark-gluon plasma (QGP) stage macroscopically as an ideal fluid, but models the dilute late hadron resonance gas (HG) microscopically using a hadronic cascade. By comparing with a pure hydrodynamic approach we identify effects of hadronic viscosity on the transverse momentum spectra and differential elliptic flow v_2(p_T). We investigate the dynamical origins of the observed mass-ordering of v_2(p_T) for identified hadrons, focusing on dissipative effects during the late hadronic stage. We find that, at RHIC energies, much of the finally observed mass-splitting is generated during the hadronic stage, due to build-up of additional radial flow. The phi meson, having a small interaction cross section, does not fully participate in this additional flow. As a result, it violates the mass-ordering pattern for v_2(p_T) that is observed for other hadron species. We also show that the early decoupling of the phi meson from the hadronic rescattering dynamics leads to interesting and unambiguous features in the p_T-dependence of the nuclear suppression factor R_AA and of the phi/p ratio.
Heinz Ulrich W.
Hirano Tetsufumi
Kharzeev Dmitri
Lacey Roy
Nara Yasushi
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