Collective Flows in a Transport Approach

Abstract

We introduce a transport approach at fixed shear viscosity to entropy ratio $\text{etas}$ to study the generation of collective flows in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Transport theory supplies a covariant approach valid also at large $\text{etas}$ and at intermediate transverse momentum $p_T$, where deviations from equilibrium is no longer negligible. Such an approach shows that at RHIC energies a temperature dependent $\text{etas}$ enhances significantly the $v_4/v_2^2$ respect to the case of constant $\text{etas}$. Furthermore if NJL chiral dynamics is self-consistently implemented we show that it does not modify the relation between $v_2$ and $\text{etas}$.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2010, 21-26 June 2010 Las Londe Les Maures; to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series