The effect of early chemical freeze out on radial and elliptic flow from a full 3D hydrodynamic model

Abstract

We investigate the effect of early chemical freeze-out on radial and elliptic flow by using a fully three dimensional hydrodynamic model. We find that the time evolution of temperature and the thermal freeze-out temperature dependence of average radial flow are different from the results by using a conventional hydrodynamic model in which chemical equilibrium is always assumed. We also analyse the p_t spectrum and v_2(p_t) at the RHIC energy and consistently reproduce experimental data by choosing the thermal freeze-out temperature T_th = 140 MeV.

6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at Hirschegg2002: Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Hirschegg, Austria, January 13-19, 2002