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Séminaire : Fluctuations and flow in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC
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Amphi Recherche (Dept.Phys.)
Amphi Recherche
Dept.Phys.
Description
Correlations between particles produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion
collisions have been thoroughly studied experimentally, because they
reveal interesting patterns which are specific to nucleus-nucleus
collisions. The best known of these correlations is elliptic flow.
It has been recently shown that fluctuations in the wavefunctions of
incoming nuclei result in new types of flow, in particular triangular
flow. I review these new observables and show that they can be used
to constrain the viscosity of hot QCD, and models of the "initial
state".