Elliptic flow and nuclear modification factor in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions within a partonic transport model

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The quark gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions exhibits remarkable features.

• It behaves like a nearly perfect liquid with a small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio and leads to the quenching of highly energetic particles.
• We show that both effects can be understood for the first time within one common framework.
• Employing the parton cascade Boltzmann Approach to Multi-Parton Scatterings (BAMPS), the microscopic interactions and the space-time evolution of the quark gluon plasma are calculated by solving the relativistic Boltzmann equation.