2009

Is the quark gluon plasma produced in RHIC collisions strongly coupled?

Lacey, Roy A., Taranenko, Arkadij, Wei, Rui

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Recent hexadecapole (v4) and elliptic (v2) flow measurements are used to constrain estimates for the degree of local equilibrium, mean free path $\lambda$, and the viscosity to entropy density ratio (eta/s) of the plasma produced in Au+Au collisions at RootS = 200 GeV.

The eccentricity-scaled flow coefficients v2/e2 and v4/e4 indicate that the plasma achieves a degree of local equilibrium within 5 - 10% of the value expected for a fluid with eta/s equal to the conjectured lower bound of 1/4pi.
Estimates for $\lambda$ and eta/s as a function of collision centrality and particle transverse momentum pT, points to transverse expansion dynamics compatible with a strongly coupled low viscosity plasma.

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