This writeup is a compilation of the predictions for the forthcoming Heavy Ion Program at the Large Hadron Collider, as presented at the CERN Theory Institute ‘Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC—Last Call for Predictions’, held from 14th May to 10th June 2007.
A new method for evaluating spectra and correlations in the hydrodynamic approach is proposed. It is based on an analysis of the Boltzmann equations (BE) in terms of probabilities for constituent particles to escape from the interacting system. The conditions of applicability of the Cooper-Frye freeze-out prescription are considered within the method. The results are illustrated with a nonrelativistic exact solution of BE for an expanding spherical fireball as well as with approximate solutions for ellipsoidally expanding ones.
Single-particle spectra and two-particle Bose-Einstein correlation functions
are determined analytically utilizing a self-similar solution of
non-relativistic hydrodynamics for ellipsoidally-symmetric, expanding
fireballs, by assuming that the symmetry axes of the ellipsoids are tilted in
the frame of the observation. The directed, elliptic and third flows are
calculated analytically. The mass dependences of the slope parameters in the
principal directions of the expansion, together with the mass and angular
dependences of the HBT radius parameters, reflect directly the ellipsoidal
properties of the flow.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
We develop a combined hydro-kinetic approach which incorporates a
hydrodynamical expansion of the systems formed in \textit{A}+\textit{A}
collisions and their dynamical decoupling described by escape probabilities.
The method corresponds to a generalized relaxation time ($\tau_{\text{rel}}$)
approximation for the Boltzmann equation applied to inhomogeneous expanding
systems; at small $\tau_{\text{rel}}$ it also allows one to catch the viscous
effects in hadronic component - hadron-resonance gas. We demonstrate how the
approximation of sudden freeze-out can be obtained within this dynamical
picture of continuous emission and find that hypersurfaces, corresponding to a
sharp freeze-out limit, are momentum dependent. The pion $m_{T}$ spectra are
computed in the developed hydro-kinetic model, and compared with those obtained
from ideal hydrodynamics with the Cooper-Frye isothermal prescription. Our
results indicate that there does not exist a universal freeze-out temperature
for pions with different momenta, and support an earlier decoupling of higher
$p_{T}$ particles. By performing numerical simulations for various initial
conditions and equations of state we identify several characteristic features
of the bulk QCD matter evolution preferred in view of the current analysis of
heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies.Comment: 30 pages, 15 figures, minor corrections in accordance with the proof
copy of the forthcoming article in PR
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