Soft-hadronic observables for relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

The relativistic hydrodynamics together with the single-freeze-out statistical hadronization model is used to describe the midrapidity hadron production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. At the highest RHIC energy our approach gives a quite satisfactory global description of soft hadronic observables including the HBT radii. With the increased initial energy, from RHIC to LHC, we expect the saturation of the pion elliptic flow and the moderate increase of the correlation radii.

Talk presented by WF at the Cracow Epiphany Conference on LHC Physics, Cracow, Poland, January 4 -- 6, 2008