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What can we learn from hydrodynamic analysis of elliptic flow?
Presenting Author: Dr. Tetsufumi Hirano
Author(s): Tetsufumi Hirano, Miklos Gyulassy
Abstract:
The agreement of hydrodynamic results of radial and elliptic flow patterns with Au+Au data at RHIC is the main evidence suggesting the nearly perfect fluidity of the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma, sQGP. We study the sensitivity of this conclusion to different hydrodynamic assumptions on chemical and thermal freezeout. If chemical freezeout occurs at the hadronization time to reproduce the hadron yields, $v_2(p_T)$ continues to increase with proper time in the hadronic phase and leads to a discrepancy with the data. This counter intuitive effect arises due to the decrease of the mean pion transverse momentum $ back to the Archives home to the Parallel talks to the Posters |