NeXSPheRIO results on elliptic flow at RHIC and connection with thermalization

R. Andrade, F. Grassi, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, O. Socolowski Jr., B. Tavares

Published 2005-11-07, updated 2006-02-17Version 3

Elliptic flow at RHIC is computed event-by-event with NeXSPheRIO. Reasonable agreement with experimental results on $v_2(\eta)$ is obtained. Various effects are studied as well: reconstruction of impact parameter direction, freeze out temperature, equation of state (with or without crossover), emission mecanism.