We present the first comparisons of experimental data with phenomenological results from $(3+1)\mathrm{D}$ quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP). We compare particle spectra, average transverse momentum, and elliptic flow. The dynamical equations used for the hydrodynamic stage utilize aHydroQP, which naturally includes both shear and bulk viscous effects. The $(3+1)\mathrm{D}$ aHydroQP evolution obtained is self-consistently converted to hadrons using anisotropic Cooper-Frye freeze-out. Hadron production and decays are modeled using a customized version of therminator 2. In this first study, we utilized smooth Glauber-type initial conditions and a single effective freeze-out temperature $T_{\mathrm{FO}}=130\mathrm{MeV}$ with all hadronic species in full chemical equilibrium. With this rather simple setup, we find a very good description of many heavy-ion observables.

• Received 25 March 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.042301