Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data
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Hints of incomplete thermalization in RHIC data
The large elliptic flow observed in Au–Au collisions at RHIC is often put forward as a compelling evidence for the formation of a strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma. The main argument is that the measured elliptic flow is as large as the value given by fluid-dynamics models that assume complete thermalization. It is argued that this claim may not be justified, since a detailed examination ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Physical Journal A
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1434-6001,1434-601X
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2005-10293-9