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Classical Computation of Elliptic Flow at Large Transverse Momentum

Derek Teaney, Raju Venugopalan

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0203208

Abstract

We compute the contribution of classical fields to the second Fourier coefficient (v2) of the azimuthal gluon distribution at large transverse momentum in heavy ion collisions. We find that the classical contribution to the flow alone cannot account for the experimentally observed behavior of v2(pt) at large transverse momentum pt.

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