{
  "id": "1709.06354",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-09-19T11:34:20.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-09-19T11:34:20.000Z",
  "title": "Elliptic Flow in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\\sqrt{s_{\\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV at the LHC Using Boltzmann Transport Equation with Non-extensive Statistics",
  "authors": [
    "Sushanta Tripathy",
    "Swatantra Kumar Tiwari",
    "Mohammed Younus",
    "Raghunath Sahoo"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages and 12 Figures, Submitted for publication",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions is an important signature of a possible de-confinement transition from hadronic phase to partonic phase. In the present work, we use non-extensive statistics, which has been used for transverse momentum ($p_{\\rm T}$) distribution in proton+proton ($p+p$) collisions, as the initial particle distribution function in Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). A Boltzmann-Gibbs Blast Wave (BGBW) function is taken as an equilibrium function to get the final distribution to describe the particle production in heavy-ion collisions. In this formalism, we try to estimate the elliptic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at $\\sqrt{s_{\\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV at the LHC for different centralities. The elliptic flow ($v_2$) of identified particles seems to be described quite well in the available $p_{\\rm T}$ range. An approach, which combines the non-extensive nature of particle production in $p+p$ collisions through an evolution in kinetic theory using BTE, with BGBW equilibrium distribution is successful in describing the spectra and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-09-19T11:34:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "elliptic flow",
      "boltzmann transport equation",
      "non-extensive statistics",
      "heavy-ion collisions",
      "particle production"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}