Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-06-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
4 pages, 4 figes. Invited talk by C. Greiner at the XLIVth Rencontres de Moriond (QCD and High Energy Interactions), La Thuile
Scientific paper
Fast thermalization and a strong buildup of elliptic flow of QCD matter as found at RHIC are understood as the consequence of perturbative QCD (pQCD) interactions within the 3+1 dimensional parton cascade BAMPS. The main contributions stem from pQCD bremsstrahlung $2 \leftrightarrow 3 $ processes. By comparing to Au+Au data of the flow parameter $v_2$ the shear viscosity to entropy ratio $\eta/s$ has been extracted dynamically and lies in the range of 0.08 and 0.2. Also jet-quenching has been investigated consistently within a full dynamical picture of the heavy ion collision. The results for gluonic jets indicate a slightly too large suppression, but are encouraging to understand the two major phenomena, strong flow and jet-quenching, within a unified microscopic treatment of kinetic processes. In addition, simulations on the temporal propagation of dissipative shock waves lead to the observation that an $\eta/s$ ratio larger than 0.2 prevents the development of well-defined shock waves on timescales typical for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Bouras Ioannis
El Andrej
Fochler Oliver
Greiner Carsten
Uphoff Jan
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