Small System Collectivity in Relativistic Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions
By J. Nagle, W. Zajc. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2018
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The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well described in terms of nearly inviscid hydrodynamics, thereby establishing this system of quarks and gluons as the most perfect fluid in nature. A revolution in the field is under way, spearheaded by the discovery of similar collective, fluid-like phenomena in much smaller systems including p+ p, p+ A, d+Au, and 3He+Au collisions. We review these exciting new observations and their profound implications for hydrodynamic descriptions of small and/or out-of-equilibrium systems.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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