Identified Particle Spectra and Anisotropic Flow in an Event-by-Event Hybrid Approach in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV

Understand

The first results from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider for charged particle spectra and elliptic flow are compared to an event-by-event hybrid approach with an ideal hydrodynamic expansion.

• This approach has been shown to successfully describe bulk observables at RHIC.
• Without changing any parameters of the calculation the same approach is applied to Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV.
• This is an important test if the established understanding of the dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions is also applicable at even higher energies.