High-energy heavy-ion reactions and relativistic hydrodynamics in three dimensions
- 11 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 63 (24) , 2641-2644
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.2641
Abstract
A numerical three-dimensional solution of the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Landau-type initial conditions has been obtained. Using an equation of state consistent with lattice-QCD calculations, the rapidity and transverse-momentum distributions are calculated for O+Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon. Satisfactory agreement with data is obtained with an initial temperature =220 MeV corresponding to a mixed quark-gluon–hadron phase. A pure hadron phase is within this formalism inconsistent with the data.
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