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arxiv: 1502.01675 · v2 · pith:R73V5R3Ynew · submitted 2015-02-05 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ph

The importance of the bulk viscosity of QCD in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

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We investigate the consequences of a nonzero bulk viscosity coefficient on the transverse momentum spectra, azimuthal momentum anisotropy, and multiplicity of charged hadrons produced in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. The agreement between a realistic 3D hybrid simulation and the experimentally measured data considerably improves with the addition of a bulk viscosity coefficient for strongly interacting matter. This paves the way for an eventual quantitative determination of several QCD transport coefficients from the experimental heavy ion and hadron-nucleus collision programs.

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