Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1836626 | Nuclear Physics A | 2011 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
In this talk we discuss the analogy between data from heavy-ion collisions and the Cosmic Microwave Background. We identify pT correlations data as the heavy-ion analogy to the CMB and extract a power-spectrum from the heavy-ion data. We define the ratio of the final state power-spectrum to the initial coordinate-space eccentricity as the transfer-function. From the transfer-function we find that higher n terms are suppressed and we argue that the suppression provides information on length scales like the mean-free-path. We make a rough estimate of the mean-free-path and find that it is larger than estimates based on the centrality dependence of ν2.
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