Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We discuss how hydrodynamics can be used to extract information on fundamental properties of quantum-chromo-dynamics from experimental data, and review successes and challenges of the hydrodynamic framework.
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@article{arxiv.1301.5893,
title = {Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {Charles Gale and Sangyong Jeon and Bjoern Schenke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5893},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
27 pages, 7 figures, invited review for a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics A