Anisotropic flow: Achievements, Difficulties, Expectations

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress, challenges, and future prospects of anisotropic flow measurements in heavy ion collisions, highlighting recent analysis techniques, key results, and the potential to detect parity violation effects at RHIC and LHC.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of anisotropic flow research, including recent methodological advances and the exploration of parity violation signals in heavy ion collision experiments.

Findings

Significant progress in understanding anisotropic flow properties.

Development of new analysis techniques for flow measurement.

Potential detection of strong parity violation effects.

Abstract

Anisotropic flow measurements play a crucial role in understanding the physics and bulk properties of the system created in heavy ion collisions. In this talk I briefly review the most important results obtained so far, recent developments in the analysis techniques and the interpretation of the results, and what should we expect next, both at RHIC and LHC. I also discuss event anisotropies sensitive to the strong parity violation effects.