Saturation of elliptic flow and the transport opacity of the gluon plasma at RHIC

Nuclear Physics A

Volumn 697, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 495-520

  Molnár, Dénes ^a,b   Gyulassy, Miklos ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

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EID: 10044261327     PISSN: 03759474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01224-6     Document Type: Article

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