142 research outputs found
Elliptic Flow and Shear Viscosity within a Transport Approach from RHIC to LHC Energy
We have investigated the build up of anisotropic flows within a parton
cascade approach at fixed shear viscosity to entropy density \eta/s to study
the generation of collective flows in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.
We present a study of the impact of a temperature dependent \eta/s(T) on the
generation of the elliptic flow at both RHIC and LHC. Finally we show that the
transport approach, thanks to its wide validity range, is able to describe
naturally the rise - fall and saturation of the v_2(p_T) observed at LHC.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the workshop EPIC@LHC, 6-8 July
2011, Bari, Ital
Shear viscosity and chemical equilibration of the QGP
We have investigated, in the frame work of the transport approach, different
aspects of the QGP created in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and LHC energies.
The shear viscosity has been calculated by using the Green-Kubo relation
at the cascade level. We have compared the numerical results for
obtained from the Green-Kubo correlator with the analytical formula in both the
Relaxation Time Approximation (RTA) and the Chapman-Enskog approximation (CE).
From this comparison we show that in the range of temperature explored in a
Heavy Ion collision the RTA underestimates the viscosity by about a factor of
2, while a good agreement is found between the CE approximation and Gree-Kubo
relation already at first order of approximation. The agreement with the CE
approximation supplies an analytical formula that allows to develop kinetic
transport theory at fixed shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, .
We show some results for the build up of anisotropic flows in a
transport approach at fixed shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, .
We study the impact of a T-dependent on the generation of the
elliptic flows at both RHIC and LHC. We show that the transport approach
provides, in a unified way, a tool able to naturally describe the
in a wide range of , including also the description of
the rise and fall and saturation of the observed at LHC.
Finally, we have studied the evolution of the quark-gluon composition employing
a Boltzmann-Vlasov transport approach that include: the mean fields dynamics,
associated to the quasi-particle model, and the elastic and inelastic
collisions for massive quarks and gluons. Following the chemical evolution from
an initial gluon dominated plasma we predict a quark dominance close to
paving the way to an hadronization via quark coalescence.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, Invited Talk given by S. Plumari at the 11th
International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), San Antonio,
Texas, USA, May 27-June 1, 2012. To appear in the NN2012 Proceedings in
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS
Anisotropic flows and the shear viscosity of the QGP within an event-by-event massive parton transport approach
Abstract We have developed an event-by-event relativistic kinetic transport approach to study the build up of the anisotropic flows vn(pT) for a system at fixed η/s(T) . The partonic approach describe the evolution of massless partons which imply ϵ=3p as Equation of State (EoS). We extend previous studies to finite partonic masses tuned to simulate a system that expand with an EoS close to the recent lQCD results. We study the role of EoS and the effect of η/s(T) ratio on the build up of vn(pT) up to n=5 for two beam energies: RHIC energies at s=200 GeV and LHC energies at s=2.76 TeV. We find that for the two beam energies considered the suppression of the vn(pT) due to the viscosity of the medium have different contributions coming from the cross over or QGP phase. We shows that in ultra-central collisions (0–0.2%) the vn(pT) have a stronger sensitivity to the T dependence of η/s that increases with the order of the harmonic n. Finally, we discuss the results for the integrated flow harmonics ⟨vn⟩ in ultra-central collisions pointing-out how the relative strength of ⟨vn⟩ depend on the colliding energies as well as on the freeze-out dynamics
Elliptic Flow from Non-equilibrium Initial Condition with a Saturation Scale
A current goal of relativistic heavy ion collisions experiments is the search
for a Color Glass Condensate as the limiting state of QCD matter at very high
density. In viscous hydrodynamics simulations, a standard Glauber initial
condition leads to estimate , while a Color Glass
Condensate modeling leads to at least a factor of 2 larger . Within a
kinetic theory approach based on a relativistic Boltzmann-like transport
simulation, we point out that the out-of-equilibrium initial distribution
proper of a Color Glass Condensate reduces the efficiency in building-up the
elliptic flow. Our main result at RHIC energy is that the available data on
are in agreement with a also for Color Glass
Condensate initial conditions, opening the possibility to describe
self-consistently also higher order flow, otherwise significantly
underestimated, and to pursue further the search for signatures of the Color
Glass Condensate.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. // Title changed, some discussion added, main
conclusions unchanged. Version accepted for publication on Phys. Lett.
Universal strangeness production and size fluctuactions in small and large systems
Strangeness production in high multiplicity events gives indications on the
transverse size fluctuactions in nucleus-nucleus (), proton-nucleus ()
and proton-proton () collisions. In particular the behavior of strange
particle hadronization in "small" () and "large" () initial
configurations of the collision can be tested for the specific particle
species, for different centralities and for large fluctuations of the
transverse size in and by using the recent ALICE data. A universality
of strange hadron production emerges by introducing a dynamical variable
proportional to the initial parton density in the transverse plane.Comment: talk at EPS-HEP conference , Venice, 201
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