We consider the development of anisotropic flow in an expanding system of particles undergoing very few rescatterings, using a kinetic-theoretical description with a nonlinear collision term. We derive the scaling behaviors of the harmonic coefficients vn with the initial-state eccentricities and the mean number of rescatterings, and argue that hexagonal flow v6 should follow a nontrivial behavior, different from that of the lower harmonics. Our findings should be observable in experimental data for small systems.
Considering the kinetic Boltzmann equation in the limit of very few collisions, we study the evolution of the phase space distribution of bottomonia interacting with an expanding gas of massless partons. We investigate the scaling of the anisotropic flow coefficients on the initial eccentricities and the inverse Knudsen number, and compute their transverse momentum dependence.
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