Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-08-17
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the "Hadron-RAMP 2004" meeting, March 28 - April 3, 2004, Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeir
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1843604
Fluid dynamical calculations with QGP showed a softening of the directed flow while with hadronic matter this effect is absent. On the other hand, we indicated that a third flow component shows up in the reaction plane as an enhanced emission, which is orthogonal to the directed flow. This is not shadowed by the deflected projectile and target, and shows up at measurable rapidities, $y_cm = 1-2$. To study the formation of this effect initial stages of relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied. An effective string rope model is presented for heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies. Our model takes into account baryon recoil for both target and projectile, arising from the acceleration of partons in an effective field. The typical field strength (string tension) for RHIC energies is about 5-12 GeV/fm, what allows us to talk about "string ropes". The results show that QGP forms a tilted disk, such that the direction of the largest pressure gradient stays in the reaction plane, but deviates from both the beam and the usual transverse flow directions. The produced initial state can be used as an initial condition for further hydrodynamical calculations. Such initial conditions lead to the creation of third flow component. Recent $v_1$ measurements are promising that this effect can be used as a diagnostic tool of the QGP. Collective flow is sensitive to the early stages of system evolution. To study the sensitivity of the flow signal, we have calculated flow harmonics from a Blast Wave model, a tilted, ellipsoidally expanding source. We studied recent experimental techniques used for calculation of the $v_n$ Fourier coefficients and pointed out a few possible problems connected to these techniques, which may impair the sensitivity of flow analysis.
Anderlik A.
Anderlik Cs.
Csernai Laszlo Pal
Magas Volodymyr K.
Molnar Emil
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