NeXSPheRIO results on elliptic flow at RHIC and connection with thermalization

Abstract

Elliptic flow at RHIC is computed event-by-event with NeXSPheRIO. Reasonable agreement with experimental results on $v_2(\eta )$ is obtained. Various effects are studied as well: reconstruction of impact parameter direction, freeze out temperature, equation of state (with or without crossover), emission mecanism.

Comments: Contribution to the Proceedings of the Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermalization workshop. Content slightly increased