Erratum to “Saturation of elliptic flow and the transport opacity of the gluon plasma at RHIC”
By D. Molnár, M. Gyulassy. 2001
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Abstract Differential elliptic flow and particle spectra are calculated taking into account the finite transport opacity of the gluon plasma produced in Au+Au at E cm ∼130 A GeV at RHIC. Covariant numerical solutions of the ultrarelativistic Boltzmann equation are obtained using the MPC parton cascade technique. For typical pQCD (∼3 mb) elastic cross sections, extreme initial gluon densities, d N g / d η∼15 000 , are required to reproduce the elliptic flow saturation pattern reported by STAR. However, we show that the solutions depend mainly on the transport opacity, χ=∫ d z σ t ρ g , and thus the data can also be reproduced with d N g /d η ∼1000, but with extreme elastic parton cross sections, ∼45 mb. We demonstrate that the spectra and elliptic flow are dominated by numerical artifacts unless parton subdivisions ∼100–1000 are applied to retain Lorentz covariance for RHIC initial conditions.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Small System Collectivity in Relativistic Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions (2018, background): “For example, within mpc, only by artificially increasing the expected perturbative QCD parton–parton inelastic cross section from 3 mb to 45 mb could one describe the data (117,118).”