Anisotropic flow and jet quenching in ultrarelativistic U+U collisions.
Full-overlap U+U collisions provide significantly larger initial energy densities at comparable spatial deformation, and significantly larger deformation and volume at comparable energy density, than semi-central Au+Au collisions. We show quantitatively that this provides a long lever arm for studying the hydrodynamic behavior of elliptic flow in much larger and denser collision systems and the predicted nonlinear path-length dependence of radiative parton energy loss.
Heinz
Ulrich
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Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Kuhlman
Anthony
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