VISHNU hybrid model for the viscous QCD matter at RHIC and LHC energies

• Authors: Huichao Song
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this proceeding, we briefly describe the viscous hydrodynamics + hadron cascade hybrid model VISHNU for relativistic heavy ion collisions and report the current status on extracting the QGP viscosity from elliptic flow data.

Keywords

EN

the quark gluon plasma; shear viscosity; elliptic flow; viscous hydrodynamics + hadron cascade hybrid model

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1242-1244

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2012

online

4 - 12 - 2012

Contributors

author

Huichao Song

• Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0130-z