Initial Conditions in the One-Fluid Hydrodynamical Description of Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

We present a phenomenological model for the initial conditions needed in a one-fluid hydrodynamical description of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at CERN--SPS. The basic ingredient is the parametrization of the baryon stopping, i.e. the rapidity distribution, as a function of the thickness of the nuclei. We apply the model to S + S and Pb + Pb collisions and find after hydrodynamical evolution reasonable agreement with the data.

Comments: 14 pages, LaTeX (figures included); Talk given at the ECT* Workshop on Hydrodynamics for Nuclear Collisions, Trento, May 1997