Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in ultrarelativistic U+U collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Heinz, Ulrich ^a   Kuhlman, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPTIC FLOWS; JET QUENCHING; LARGE HADRON COLLIDERS (LHC); QUARK-GLUCON PLASMA (QGP);

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; QUENCHING; SYNCHROTRONS;

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS;

EID: 18244393197     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.132301     Document Type: Article

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