Initial condition for hydrodynamics, partonic free streaming, and the uniform description of soft observables at RHIC

Details Initial condition for hydrodynamics, partonic free streaming, and the uniform description of soft observables at RHIC Initial condition for hydrodynamics, partonic free streaming, and the uniform description of soft observables at RHIC

2008-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/0801.4361v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.101:022301,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.022301

We investigate the role of the initial condition used for the hydrodynamic evolution of the system formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and find that an appropriate choice motivated by the models of early-stage dynamics, specifically a simple two-dimensional Gaussian profile, leads to a uniform description of soft observables measured in the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In particular, the transverse-momentum spectra, the elliptic-flow, and the Hanbury-Brown--Twiss correlation radii, including the ratio R_out/R_side as well as the dependence of the radii on the azimuthal angle (azHBT), are properly described. We use the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics with a realistic equation of state based on lattice calculations and the hadronic gas at high and low temperatures, respectively. We also show that the inclusion of the partonic free-streaming in the early stage allows to delay the start of the hydrodynamical description to comfortable times of the order of 1 fm/c. Free streaming broadens the initial energy-density profile, but generates the initial transverse and elliptic flow. The data may be described equally well when the hydrodynamics is started early, or with a delay due to partonic free-streaming.

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