A parton recombination approach to heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

This thesis discusses the phenomenological parton recombination approach to describe hadronization in heavy ion collisions. The very good agreement to RHIC data for the flow coefficients v_2 and v_4 is shown and extrapolations are used to make predictions for the LHC.

Comments: Diploma thesis; Goethe University Frankfurt, Dec. 2008; 111 pages