Eur. Phys. J. C (2011) 71: 1612
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1612-7
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1612-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Anisotropic flow far from equilibrium
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
* e-mail: borghini@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Received:
9
December
2010
Revised:
2
March
2011
Published online:
9
April
2011
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 on average already leads to sizable elliptic flow, with mass ordering between the species.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2011
