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Raimond Snellings

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arXiv2004

Anisotropic Flow at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Anisotropic flow is recognized as one of the main observables providing information on the early stage of a heavy-ion collision. At RHIC the observed strong collective flow of the bulk matter is considered evidence for an early onset of thermalization, and an ideal hydrodynamical expansion with an equation of state consistent with that obtained from lattice QCD calculations. The large collective flow of the bulk and the inferred large energy loss of the produced jets propagating through the created matter are key signatures for the formation of a Quark Gluon Plasma.

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arXiv2003

Eccentricity fluctuations and its possible effect on elliptic flow measurements

The elliptic flow measured at RHIC has been interpreted as a signature for strong partonic interactions early in the collision and as an indication of a well developed quark-gluon plasma phase. The measured values of elliptic flow, using methods based on multi-particle correlations, are affected by fluctuations in the magnitude of the elliptic flow. In this Letter, using a Monte Carlo Glauber calculation, we estimate what the possible effect of spatial eccentricity fluctuations is on the determination of elliptic flow.

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arXiv2003

Heavy Ion Collisions

Lattice QCD predicts a phase transition between hadronic matter and a system of deconfined quarks and gluons (the Quark Gluon Plasma) at high energy densities. Recent results from the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) dedicated to the study of QCD at extreme densities will be discussed and compared to measurements obtained at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).

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arXiv2003

Heavy Ion Collisions

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arXiv2003

Elliptic flow measurements from STAR

In these proceedings some of the highlights of the elliptic flow measurements from STAR at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} =$ 130 and 200 GeV for Au+Au collisions are presented.

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arXiv2001

Single particle inclusive spectra, HBT and elliptic flow; a consistent picture at RHIC?

In these proceedings we will present the preliminary identified single particle inclusive spectra, the identified particle elliptic flow and the HBT versus the reaction plane measured with the STAR detector at RHIC. So far none of the theoretical space-time models has been able to describe the combination of these measurements consistently. In order to see if our measurements can be understood in the context of a simple hydro-motivated blast wave model we extract the relevant parameters for this model, and show that it leads to a consistent description of these observables.

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