Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Ulrich HeinzPhysics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1117;Raimond SnellingsPhysics Department, Utrecht University, 3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands;
2013en
ABI
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.
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