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What can we learn from hydrodynamic analysis at RHIC?

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We can establish a new picture, the perfect fluid sQGP core and the dissipative hadronic corona, of the space-time evolution of produced matter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. It is also shown that the picture works well also in the forward rapidity region through an analysis based on a new class of the hydro-kinetic model and that this is a manifestation of the rapid increase of the entropy density in the vicinity of QCD critical temperature, namely, deconfinement.

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Hirano, T. What can we learn from hydrodynamic analysis at RHIC?. Eur. Phys. J. A 29, 19–22 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10291-y

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