Viscosity information from relativistic nuclear collisions: How perfect is the fluid observed at RHIC?

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Romatschke, Paul
Romatschke, Ulrike
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[1] Univ Washington, Inst Nucl Theory, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Dept Atmospher Sci, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172301
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O4 [物理学];
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Relativistic viscous hydrodynamic fits to Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data on the centrality dependence of multiplicity, transverse, and elliptic flow for root s = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions are presented. For standard (Glauber-type) initial conditions, while data on the integrated elliptic flow coefficient v(2) are consistent with a ratio of viscosity over entropy density up to n/s similar or equal to s 0.16 data on minimum bias v(2) seem to favor a much smaller viscosity over entropy ratio, below the bound from the anti-de Sitter conformal field theory conjecture. Some caveats on this result are discussed.
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