A Blast Wave Model With Viscous Corrections

[摘要] Hadronic observables in the final stage of heavy ion collision can be described well by fluid dynamics or blast wave parameterizations. We improve existing blast wave models by adding shear viscous corrections to the particle distributions in the Navier-Stokes approximation. The specific shear viscosity η/s of a hadron gas at the freeze-out temperature is a new parameter in this model. We extract the blast wave parameters with viscous corrections from experimental data which leads to constraints on the specific shear viscosity at kinetic freeze-out. Preliminary results show η/s is rather small.

[发布机构] Cyclotron Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A and M University, College Station; TX; 77843, United States^1

[关键词] Blast waves;Blast-wave model;Freeze out temperature;Hadronic observables;Heavy ion collision;Navier Stokes;New parameters;Particle distributions