Real relativistic fluids in heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-10-04 v1
Abstract
The theory of real relativistic fluids is in the rather unique situation that there is a natural relativistic extension of the nonrelativistic theory, but it is physically untenable. On the other hand, mounting evidence that matter created in relativistic heavy ion collisions behaves as a relativistic fluid with small but finite viscosity has given the quest for an alternative a definite goal. We shall review different approaches to relativistic real fluids, their link to relativistic kinetic theory, and their application to the analysis of heavy ion collisions
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@article{arxiv.1310.0841,
title = {Real relativistic fluids in heavy ion collisions},
author = {Esteban Calzetta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0841},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Talks given at the Summer School on Geometric, Algebraic and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva (Colombia), July 2013