Statistics of initial density perturbations in heavy ion collisions and their fluid dynamic response

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1-38

  Floerchinger, Stefan ^a   Wiedemann, Urs Achim ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heavy Ion Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920065150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)005     Document Type: Article

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