Título: Flow harmonics within an analytically solvable viscous hydrodynamic model
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Donato Giorgio Torrieri
Instituição: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Departamento de Raios Cósmicos e Cronologia, Grupo de Física Hadrônica – UNICAMP
Resumo: After briefly discussing the scaling, in terms of energy, system size and $ p_T $, of anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions, I argue that scaling is a good way to link the observed properties of anisotropic flow to fundamental quantities characterizing the system produced in these collisions I illustrate this based on a viscous hydrodynamic model with anisotropically perturbed Gubser flow and isothermal Cooper-Frye freeze-out at early times. Using this model, we analytically compute the flow harmonics $ v_n(p_T) $ and study how they scale with the harmonic number $ n $ and transverse momentum, as well as the system size, shear and bulk viscosity coefficients, and collision energy. In particular, we find that the magnitude of shear viscous corrections grows linearly with $ n $. The mixing between different harmonics is also discussed. While this model is rather simple as compared to realistic heavy-ion collisions, we argue that the scaling results presented here may be meaningfully compared to experimental data collected over many energies, system sizes, and geometries.