Anisotropic flow: Achievements, Difficulties, Expectations

Abstract

Anisotropic flow measurements play a crucial role in understanding the physics and bulk properties of the system created in heavy ion collisions. In this talk I briefly review the most important results obtained so far, recent developments in the analysis techniques and the interpretation of the results, and what should we expect next, both at RHIC and LHC. I also discuss event anisotropies sensitive to the strong parity violation effects.

Proceedings, Plenary talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb.2008

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• Angular momentum conservation in heavy ion collisions at very high energy
• Suppression of elliptic flow in a minimally viscous quark-gluon plasma
• Thermal Dileptons at LHC
• Heavy-Quark Kinetics in the QGP at LHC
• The centrality dependence of elliptic flow, the hydrodynamic limit, and the viscosity of hot QCD
• Elliptic flow in the Gaussian model of eccentricity fluctuations
• Eccentricity fluctuations from the Color Glass Condensate at RHIC and LHC
• Elliptic flow for phi mesons and (anti)deuterons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Fluctuating initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions from the Glauber approach
• Trends in multiparticle production and some "predictions" for pp and PbPb collisions at LHC
• Elliptic flow fluctuations and correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV
• Predictions for the LHC heavy ion programme