Hydrodynamic elliptic and triangular flow in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76A TeV

By Zhi Qiu, Chun Shen, Ulrich Heinz. 2011

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Abstract It is shown that a simultaneous comparison of both elliptic and triangular flow from ( 2 + 1 ) -dimensional viscous fluid dynamics with recent measurements in Pb + Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) favors a small specific shear viscosity ( η / s ) QGP ≈ 1 / ( 4 π ) for the quark–gluon plasma. Using this viscosity value, the relative magnitude of the elliptic and triangular flow is well described with Monte Carlo Glauber (MC-Glauber) initial conditions while Monte Carlo Kharzeev–Levin–Nardi (MC-KLN) initial conditions require twice as large viscosity to reproduce the elliptic flow and then underpredict triangular flow by about 30%.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions: General Aspects and Recent Developments (2016, background): “[169] B. Schenke, S. Jeon and C. Gale, “Anisotropic flow in√ s = 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC,” Phys.”