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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| How perfect is the RHIC fluid? |
| Speaker: | Paul Romatschke (University of Washington, Seattle) |
| Abstract: | The speaker will discuss equations for causal viscous relativistic
hydrodynamics and present 2+1 dimensional viscous hydrodynamic fits to
RHIC data for sqrt(s)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. Using Glauber-type initial
conditions, these fits indicate that the ratio shear viscosity over
entropy density is indeed very small; taking minimum bias data for
elliptic flow at face value, a ratio that is smaller than the minimum
bound from AdS/CFT is favored. Some caveats of this result are addressed. |
| Date: | Mon, 10.09.2007 |
| Time: | 13:30 |
| Location: | Inst.f.Theoret.Physik, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, 10th floor, SEM 136 |
| Contact: | Anton Rebhan (rebhana at tph dot tuwien.ac.at) |
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