Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Abstract
We review collective flow, its anisotropies, and its event-to-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, as well as the extraction of the specific shear viscosity of quark-gluon plasma from collective flow data collected in heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC and the LHC. We emphasize the similarities between the Big Bang of our universe and the Little Bangs created in heavy-ion collisions.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev-nucl-102212-170540
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1301.2826
- Bibcode:
- 2013ARNPS..63..123H
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- 38 pages (incl. 11 figures), 145 references. Invited review prepared for Annual Review in Nuclear and Particle Physics 63 (2013)