elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions

✍ Scribed by Yunpeng Liu; Nu Xu; Pengfei Zhuang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Volume: 834
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.01.008

✦ Synopsis

The J/ψ elliptic flow in high energy nuclear collisions is calculated in a transport model. While the flow is very small at SPS and RHIC energies, it is strongly enhanced at LHC energy due to the dominance of the regeneration mechanism.