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arxiv: 1608.03444 · v2 · pith:3K2KW4P7new · submitted 2016-08-11 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ph· nucl-ex

Dynamical freeze-out criterion in a hydrodynamical description of Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV and Pb + Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=2760 GeV

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In hydrodynamical modeling of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, the freeze-out is typically assumed to take place at a surface of constant temperature or energy density. A more physical approach is to assume that freeze-out takes place at a surface of constant Knudsen number. We evaluate the Knudsen number as a ratio of the expansion rate of the system to the pion scattering rate, and apply the constant Knudsen number freeze-out criterion to ideal hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC ($\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=200$ GeV) and the LHC ($\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=2760$ GeV) energies. We see that once the numerical values of freeze-out temperature and freeze-out Knudsen number are chosen to produce similar $p_T$ distributions, the elliptic and triangular anisotropies are similar too, in both event-by-event and averaged initial state calculations.

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