Thermal photon anisotropic flow serves as a quark-gluon plasma viscometer

Nuclear Physics A

Volumn 932, Issue , 2014, Pages 184-188

  Shen, Chun ^a   Heinz, Ulrich ^a   Paquet, Jean François ^b   Gale, Charles ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic flow; Shear viscous corrections; Thermal photons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914152735     PISSN: 03759474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.07.042     Document Type: Article

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