Higher flow harmonics from (3+1)D event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics

Details Higher flow harmonics from (3+1)D event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics Higher flow harmonics from (3+1)D event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics

2011-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1109.6289v2

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 13 figures, version 2: typo corrected

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We present event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic calculations of the anisotropic flow coefficients v_2 to v_5 for heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). We study the dependence of different flow harmonics on shear viscosity and the morphology of the initial state. v_3 and higher flow harmonics exhibit a particularly strong dependence on both the initial granularity and shear viscosity. We argue that a combined analysis of all available flow harmonics will allow to determine eta/s of the quark gluon plasma precisely. Presented results strongly hint at a value (eta/s)_QGP < 2/4pi at RHIC. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effect of shear viscosity on pseudo-rapidity spectra and the mean transverse momentum as a function of rapidity.

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