Elliptic flow in U+U collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV and in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV: Prediction from a hybrid approach

TL;DR

This paper predicts elliptic flow in uranium-uranium and lead-lead collisions at high energies using a hybrid model combining ideal hydrodynamics and hadron cascade simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a hybrid modeling approach to predict elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions at different energies.

Findings

Predicted elliptic flow values for U+U and Pb+Pb collisions.

Demonstrated the effectiveness of combining hydrodynamics with hadron cascade models.

Provided insights into the quark-gluon plasma evolution at different energies.

Abstract

We predict the elliptic flow parameter v_2 in U+U collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV using a hybrid model in which the evolution of the quark gluon plasma is described by ideal hydrodynamics with a state-of-the-art lattice QCD equation of state, and the subsequent hadronic stage by a hadron cascade model.