Collective Flow and Mach Cones with Parton Transport

Abstract

Fast thermalization and a strong build up of elliptic flow of QCD matter were investigated within the pQCD based 3+1 dimensional parton transport model BAMPS including bremsstrahlung $2\leftrightarrow 3$ processes. Within the same framework quenching of gluonic jets in Au+Au collisions at RHIC can be understood. The development of conical structure by gluonic jets is investigated in a static box for the regimes of small and large dissipation. Furthermore we demonstrate two different approaches to extract the shear viscosity coefficient $\eta$ from a microscopical picture.

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; to appear in the proceedings of Hot and Cold Baryonic Matter -- HCBM 2010