12–17 Sept 2016
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Momentum anisotropy at kinetic freeze out

13 Sept 2016, 10:55
20m

Speaker

Steffen Feld (Universität Bielefeld)

Description

The transition from a hydrodynamical modeling to a particle-based approach is a crucial element of the description of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Assuming this "freeze out" happens instantaneously at each point of the expanding medium, we argue that the local phase-space distribution of the emitted particles is asymmetric in momentum space. This suggests the use of anisotropic hydrodynamics for the last stages of the fluid evolution. We show how observables depend on the amount of momentum-space anisotropy at freeze out and how smaller or larger anisotropies allow for different values of the freeze-out temperature.

Author

Steffen Feld (Universität Bielefeld)

Co-author

Nicolas Borghini (University of Bielefeld)

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