Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data

Details Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data

2005-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0509092v2

Eur.Phys.J. A29 (2006) 27-31

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

8 pages, 2 eps-figures, Talk given at the Workshop on QGP Thermalization (QGPTH05), Vienna, 10-12 Aug 2005

Scientific paper

10.1140/epja/i2005-10293-9

The large elliptic flow observed in Au-Au collisions at RHIC is often put forward as a compelling evidence for the formation of a strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma. The main argument is that the measured elliptic flow is as large as the value given by fluid-dynamics models that assume complete thermalization. It is argued that this claim may not be justified, since a detailed examination of experimental data rather suggests that the system created is not fully equilibrated at the time when anisotropic flow develops.

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