Universal Flow in the Early Stages at RHIC

Abstract

Pre-thermal flow plays an important role in the final state evolution of heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We show that flow has universal features for a wide range of models. This significantly reduces the uncertainty in initializing hydrodynamic models at RHIC.

proceedings for 2009 Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics at Big Sky, Montana

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