Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1838064 Nuclear Physics A 2006 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

Flow measurements are reviewed with particular emphasis on the hydrodynamic character of elliptic flow at RHIC. Hydrodynamic scaling compatible with the production of highly thermalized matter having a high degree of collective interactions and extremely low viscosity, is observed for a broad selection of the data. These properties suggest the production of a new state of strongly interacting nuclear matter at extremely high density and temperature where the relevant degrees of freedom are the valence quarks, ie. the sQGP.

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