Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8184224 | Nuclear Physics A | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a method for extracting the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio (η/s) of the quark-gluon plasma from experimental data. We argue that uncertainty due to poor knowledge of the earliest stages of a heavy-ion collision is smallest for ultra-central events. The most precise value of η/s can thus be obtained from a global fit to pT-integrated Fourier harmonics of azimuthal correlations. We further outline a method for quantifying the overall uncertainty in the extracted value. Only after a comprehensive and systematic accounting of all sources of uncertainty can a reliable measurement be claimed. In these proceedings we report preliminary results; full and final results will be presented in a separate publication.
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Authors
Matthew Luzum, Jean-Yves Ollitrault,