Opacity dependence of transverse flow, pre-equilibrium and applicability of hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

We evaluate the full opacity dependence of collective flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions within a microscopic kinetic description based on the Boltzmann equation in the conformal relaxation time approximation. By comparing kinetic theory calculations to hydrodynamic and hybrid simulations for an average initial state, we point out shortcomings and inaccuracies of hydrodynamic models and present modified simulation setups to improve them.

35 pages, 15 figures. v2: Several minor changes to spelling, notation, affiliations, acknowledgements, references. Equivalent to version published in PRD. Figure 8 had to be scaled down dramatically because otherwise it wouldn't compile on the arXiv server

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