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arxiv: 0907.2262 · v2 · submitted 2009-07-14 · ⚛️ nucl-th

Viscous hydrodynamics with bulk viscosity -- uncertainties from relaxation time and initial conditions

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Bulk viscosity suppresses elliptic flow v_2, as does shear viscosity. It can thus not be neglected when extracting the shear viscosity from elliptic flow data. We here explore uncertainties in the bulk viscous contribution to viscous v_2 suppression that arise from presently uncontrolled uncertainties in the initial value of the bulk viscous pressure and its microscopic relaxation time.

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