Effect of bulk viscosity on interferometry correlations in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

A temperature dependent bulk viscosity coefficient is used in 3+1D hydrodynamic simulations. I study the effect of the increase of bulk viscosity around the critical temperature on the system dynamics in central Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2760$~GeV. With increasing bulk viscosity the life-time of the system increases slightly. Also the shape of the freeze-out hypersurface changes, the outer layers of the fireball live longer. This effect causes a small reduction of the ratio of two interferometry radii $R_{out}/R_{side}$, improving the agreement with experimental data.