Small System Collectivity in Relativistic Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions

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  • James L. Nagle
    Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA;
  • William A. Zajc
    Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA;

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<jats:p>The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well described in terms of nearly inviscid hydrodynamics, thereby establishing this system of quarks and gluons as the most perfect fluid in nature. A revolution in the field is under way, spearheaded by the discovery of similar collective, fluid-like phenomena in much smaller systems including p+ p, p+ A, d+Au, and<jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He+Au collisions. We review these exciting new observations and their profound implications for hydrodynamic descriptions of small and/or out-of-equilibrium systems.</jats:p>

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