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Holographic heavy ion collisions with baryon charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-07-05 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We numerically simulate collisions of charged shockwaves in Einstein-Maxwell theory in anti-de Sitter space as a toy model of heavy ion collisions with non-zero baryon charge. The stress tensor and the baryon current become well described by charged hydrodynamics at roughly the same time. The effect of the charge density on generic observables is typically no larger than 15\%. %The rapidity profile of the charge is wider than the profile of the local energy density. We find significant stopping of the baryon charge and compare our results with those in heavy ion collision experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1607.05273,
  title  = {Holographic heavy ion collisions with baryon charge},
  author = {Jorge Casalderrey-Solana and David Mateos and Wilke van der Schee and Miquel Triana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.05273},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 10 figures