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Viscous Corrections to Spectra, Elliptic Flow, and HBT Radii

Derek Teaney

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0209024

Abstract

I compute the first viscous correction to the thermal distribution function. With this correction, I calculate the effect of viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and HBT radii. Indicating the breakdown of hydrodynamics, viscous corrections become of order one for pT 1.5 GeV. Viscous corrections to HBT radii are particularly large and reduce the outward and longitudinal radii. This reduction is a direct consequence of the reduction in longitudinal pressure.

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