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Self-consistent conversion of a one-component bulk viscous fluid to particles

Comparison of heavy-ion experiments to fluid dynamics simulations requires the conversion of the fluid to particles. Extending the approach in Molnar & Wolff, PRC 95, 024903 (2017), this work presents self-consistent bulk viscous corrections from kinetic theory for a one-component system with isotropic $2\to 2$ interactions. The phase space corrections are contrasted to the Grad ansatz and also to corrections obtained from the relaxation time approximation. In addition, the bulk viscosity of the system is calculated and compared with the Grad result, as well as the $ζ\propto (1 - 3 c_s^2)^2 η$ relation between shear and bulk viscosity near the conformal limit. The possible influence of various bulk correction choices on differential elliptic flow $v_2(p_T)$ in heavy-ion collisions is also estimated.