Bulk Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

The features of heavy ion collisions that suggest the relevance of collective dynamics, as opposed to mere superpositions of nucleon-nucleon or even parton-parton collisions, are reviewed. The surprise of these studies is that bulk observables are far simpler than typical dynamical models of nucleus-nucleus collisions would imply. These features are shown to have a natural interpretation in terms of statistical-hydrodynamical models. The relevance of hydrodynamics to heavy ion collisions, coupled with the various similarities of the heavy ion data with that of more elementary collisions, raises very basic questions about its relevance to smaller systems.

10 Pages, 13 Figures, invited parallel talk at the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2004), Goteborg, Sweden, June 27 - July 2, 2004

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