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Results from the data obtained in the first physics run of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have shown surprisingly large elliptic flow and surprisingly small HBT radii. The present work shows that a thermal model + hadronic rescattering calculation can explain both elliptic flow and HBT results from RHIC. The calculation requires a very early hadronization time of about 1 fm/c after the initial collision of the nuclei.
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Humanic, T.J. Can hadronic rescattering explain the large elliptic flow and small HBT radii seen at RHIC?. Acta Phys. Hung. A 25, 1–9 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.25.2006.1.1
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