Abstract

We perform 3+1D viscous hydrodynamics calculations of proton-nucleus (pA) and nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions. Our goal is to understand the apparent collective behavior recently observed in pA collisions and to verify whether the highest multiplicity collision systems can be accurately described as a relativistic fluid. We compare our calculations of flow variables to existing measurements, and demonstrate that hydrodynamics correctly captures the measured trends. We show that our predictions for the pair correlation observable $r_n$ are validated by recent experimental pA measurements, and that our results are sensitive to the granularity of the initial state. We also compare our results with measurements done for nucleus-nucleus collisions.

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