Anisotropic flow far from equilibrium
arXiv:1012.0899 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1612-7
Abstract
We compute analytically the anisotropic flow in an expanding mixture of several species of relativistic massive particles. We find that a single collision per particle in average already leads to sizable elliptic flow, with mass ordering between the species.
13 pages, 7 figures. v2: journal version (a few typos corrected, extra acknowledgments added)