2012

Highly-anisotropic hydrodynamics in 3+1 space-time dimensions

Ryblewski, Radoslaw, Florkowski, Wojciech

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Recently formulated model of highly-anisotropic and strongly dissipative hydrodynamics is used in 3+1 dimensions to study behavior of matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

  • We search for possible effects of the initial high anisotropy of pressure on the final soft-hadronic observables.
  • We find that by appropriate adjustment of the initial energy density and/or the initial pseudorapidity distributions, the effects of the initial anisotropy of pressure may be easily compensated and the final hadronic observables become insensitive to early dynamics.
  • Our results indicate that the early thermalization assumption is not necessary to describe hadronic data, in particular, to reproduce the measured elliptic flow v_2.

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