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Viscosity information from relativistic nuclear collisions: How perfect is the fluid observed at RHIC?

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 99, Issue 17, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172301

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Relativistic viscous hydrodynamic fits to Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data on the centrality dependence of multiplicity, transverse, and elliptic flow for root s = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions are presented. For standard (Glauber-type) initial conditions, while data on the integrated elliptic flow coefficient v(2) are consistent with a ratio of viscosity over entropy density up to n/s similar or equal to s 0.16 data on minimum bias v(2) seem to favor a much smaller viscosity over entropy ratio, below the bound from the anti-de Sitter conformal field theory conjecture. Some caveats on this result are discussed.

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