Hydrodynamic Predictions for O-O collisions at RHIC and LHC

ORAL

Abstract

We present hydrodynamic predictions of anisotropic flow coefficients and average transverse momenta for O-O collisions at both $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} =$ 200 and 6.5 TeV energies. In particular, we investigate the effect of the relevant degrees of freedom in the initial nuclear state using the T$_{\rm R}$ENTo model. Alpha clustering is implemented using Lattice QCD calculations, and the corresponding hydrodynamic predictions are compared to modeling the nucleons independently using a Wood Saxon distribution with and without constituent quarks. We use VISHNN 2+1 hydrodynamics and the UrQMD hadronic afterburner to evolve the system, and the transport properties inputted result from a Bayesian analysis on p-Pb and Pb-Pb collision data at the LHC. We will also access validity of hydrodynamics for O-O collisions by examining the Knudsen and Reynold values during the evolution.

Authors

  • Nicholas Summerfield

    University of Houston

  • Bing-Nan Lu

    Michigan State University

  • Christopher Plumberg

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Dean Lee

    Michigan State University

  • Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Matthew Sievert

    New Mexico State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Anthony Timmins

    University of Houston