Highly anisotropic dissipative hydrodynamics
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review recent attempts to derive a dynamical framework that can reliably describe systems that possess a high degree of momentum-space anisotropy. The dynamical framework that has been developed can describe the evolution of the quark gluon plasma ranging from the longitudinal free-streaming limit to the ideal hydrodynamical limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.2626,
title = {Highly anisotropic dissipative hydrodynamics},
author = {Michael Strickland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2626},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings contribution for the Eleventh Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2012); v2 typos fixed