Speaker
Kevin Dusling
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
This work investigates the consequence of the non-equilibrium phase space distribution on elliptic flow and particle spectra using a viscous hydrodynamic simulation. First, we show how various models of energy loss lead to different viscous corrections to spectra and make a connection between the shear viscosity coefficient and the transport parameter q-hat. The off-equilibrium distribution function is taken from leading order pQCD calculations which yields different corrections for quarks and gluons. Finally, we study a meson/baryon system with different viscous corrections due to the particles' different mean free paths. This leads to an alternative description of the experimentally observed quark number scaling.
Author
Kevin Dusling
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Co-authors
Derek Teaney
(Stony Brook University)
Guy Moore
(McGill University)
