Viscosity information from relativistic nuclear collisions: How perfect is the fluid observed at RHIC?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Romatschke, Paul ^a   Romatschke, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GOLD; HYDRODYNAMICS; RELATIVITY; VISCOSITY;

ELLIPTIC FLOW; NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDERS (RHIC); RELATIVISTIC VISCOUS HYDRODYNAMICS;

HEAVY IONS;

EID: 35548969441     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172301     Document Type: Article

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