Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 132301 (2005) [4 pages]Anisotropic Flow and Jet Quenching in Ultrarelativistic U+U CollisionsReceived 16 November 2004; published 6 April 2005 Full-overlap U+U collisions provide significantly larger initial energy densities at comparable spatial deformation, and significantly larger deformation and volume at comparable energy density, than semicentral Au+Au collisions. We show quantitatively that this provides a long lever arm for studying the hydrodynamic behavior of elliptic flow in much larger and denser collision systems and the predicted nonlinear path-length dependence of radiative parton energy loss. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.132301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.132301
PACS:
25.75.-q, 12.38.Mh, 12.38.Qk
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