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Hydrodynamic Description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Nuclear Theory 2024-12-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We review the history and success of applying relativistic hydrodynamics to high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We emphasize the important role hydrodynamics has played in the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma and its quantitative exploration.

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@article{arxiv.2412.19393,
  title  = {Hydrodynamic Description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Ulrich Heinz and Björn Schenke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19393},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

32 pages, 6 figures, Contribution to "Quark Gluon Plasma at Fifty - A Commemorative Journey", Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Editors: Tapan Nayak, Marco Van Leeuwen, Steffen Bass, Claudia Ratti, James Dunlop