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

Josef Sollfrank, Pasi Huovinen, P V Ruuskanen

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9706012

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.

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