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"RHIC serves the perfect fluid" -- Hydrodynamic flow of the QGP

Ulrich W. Heinz

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0512051

Abstract

The bulk of the hot and dense matter created at RHIC behaves like an almost ideal fluid. I present the evidence for this and also discuss what we can learn about the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from the gradual breakdown of ideal fluid dynamic behavior at large transverse momenta, lower beam energies, larger impact parameters, and forward rapidities.

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