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arxiv: 1112.4081 · v1 · pith:ZPB72BKAnew · submitted 2011-12-17 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ph· nucl-ex

Effect of temperature-dependent eta/s on flow anisotropies

classification ⚛️ nucl-th hep-phnucl-ex
keywords viscosityflowrhictemperature-dependentaffectedaffectsanisotropiesanisotropy
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We investigate the effects of a temperature-dependent shear viscosity over entropy density ratio eta/s on the flow anisotropy coefficients v_2 and v_4 in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We find that v_4 is more sensitive to the viscosity at low temperatures than v_2. At RHIC v_2 is mostly affected by the viscosity around the phase transition, but the larger the collision energy, the more the quark-gluon plasma viscosity affects v_2.

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