Speaker
Damian Reynolds
(State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Description
Considerable attention has been given to the investigation of anisotropic flow in heavy-ion collisions at both the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The focus of current studies in this field is centered on the influence of the initial-state geometry [and its fluctuations] and its role in the extraction of the specific shear viscosity (i.e. the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density $\eta/s$) of the quark gluon plasma (QGP).
The PHENIX measurements for elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) flow in the Cu+Cu and Au+Au systems, allow detailed investigations of the respective influence of system size and initial-state fluctuations on the expansion dynamics and the associated transport coefficients.
Detailed differential results for inclusive charged hadron $v_2$ and $v_3$ for both systems as well as the scaling properties of these measurements, and their implications, will be presented and discussed.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Primary author
Damian Reynolds
(State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Co-authors
Dr
Jiangyong Jia
(State University of New York (US))
Roy Lacey
(Stony Brook University)
