Published December 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

On the difficulty of comparing theoretical and experimental estimates of elliptical flow

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica-CTA (Brazil)

Description

Elliptic flow is easy to compute in hydrodynamics. However experimentally it is obtained in an indirect way. The question we address in this paper is how comparable are these two approaches. For both cases, our study is done using the hydrodynamical code NeXSPheRIO and simulating nuclear collisions at RHIC. (authors)

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Journal Title
High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
31
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 1170-1173
ISSN
0254-3052

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Notes
4 figs., 17 refs.