1203.2882 (Fernando G. Gardim et al.)

Anisotropic flow in event-by-event ideal hydrodynamic simulations of
sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV Au+Au collisions    [PDF]

Fernando G. Gardim, Frederique Grassi, Matthew Luzum, Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We calculate flow observables with the NeXSPheRIO ideal hydrodynamic model and make the first comparison to the complete set of mid-rapidity flow measurements made by the PHENIX collaboration in top energy Au+Au collisions. A simultaneous calculation of v_2, v_3, v_4, and the first event-by-event calculation of quadrangular flow defined with respect to the v_2 event plane (v_4{Psi_2}) gives good agreement with measured values, including the dependence on both transverse momentum and centrality. This provides confirmation that the collision system is indeed well described as a quark-gluon plasma with an extremely small viscosity, and that correlations are dominantly generated from collective effects. In addition we present a prediction for v_5.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2882