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Relaxation volume tensors quantify the effect of stress on diffusion of crystal defects. Continuum linear elasticity predicts that calculations of these parameters using periodic boundary conditions do not suffer from systematic deviations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Puchala , M. L. Falk , K. Garikipati

Dissipative processes in relativistic fluids are known to be important in the analyses of the hot QCD matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, I consider dissipative corrections to energy and conserved charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-08 Akihiko Monnai

In this paper we discuss the fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions in comparison with various other fluids, and in particular suggest its possible supercriticality. After examining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jinfeng Liao , Volker Koch

In the first moments of a relativistic heavy ion collision explosive collective flow begins to grow before the matter has yet equilibrated. Here it is found that as long as the stress-energy tensor is traceless, early flow is independent of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 Joshua Vredevoogd , Scott Pratt

In the proximity of the QCD critical point the bulk viscosity of quark-gluon matter is expected to be proportional to nearly the third power of the critical correlation length, and become significantly enhanced. This work is the first…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Akihiko Monnai , Swagato Mukherjee , Yi Yin

We present an analysis of the general relativistic Boltzmann equation for radiation, appropriate to the case where particles and photons interact through Thomson scattering, and derive the radiation energy-momentum tensor in the diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

Starting from IP-Glasma initial conditions, we investigate the effects of bulk pressure on low mass dilepton production at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies. Though thermal dilepton…

The decorrelation of the orientation of the event-plane angles in the initial state of relativistic Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions, the "torque effect," is studied in a model of entropy deposition in the longitudinal direction involving…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

The thermalization process is studied in an expanding parton gas using the Boltzmann equation with two types of collision terms. In the relaxation time approximation we determine the criteria under which a time-dependent relaxation time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 H. Heiselberg , X. N. Wang

The history and recent progresses in the study of bulk viscosity in nuclear and quark matter are reviewed. The constraints from baryon number conservation and electric neutrality in quark matter on particle densities and fluid velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hui Dong , Nan Su , Qun Wang

Assuming that the Hagedorn fluid composed of known particles and resonances with masses $m<2\,$GeV obeys the {\it first-order} theory (Eckart) of relativistic fluid, we discuss the transport properties of QCD confined phase. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-24 A. Tawfik , M. Wahba

I review recent developments in the field of relativistic hydrodynamics and its application to the bulk dynamics in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy- Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, I…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Bjoern Schenke

We discuss the torque effect in the initial fireball formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, manifesting itself, on the event-by-event basis, in a relative angle between the principal axes of the transverse momentum distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Joao Moreira

Multiphase gas can be found in many astrophysical environments, such as galactic outflows, stellar wind bubbles, and the circumgalactic medium, where the interplay between turbulence, cooling, and viscosity can significantly influence gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

Within a Boltzmann transport model, we demonstrate correlation between stopping observables and shear viscosity in central nuclear collisions at intermediate energies (on the order of 10 to 1000 MeV/nucleon). The correlation allows us to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Brent Barker , Pawel Danielewicz

Hydrodynamic simulations of neutron star mergers rely on the clear separation between the strong-interaction, weak-interaction, and hydrodynamic timescales. In this effective framework, weak Urca interactions are typically the slowest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Jamie M. Karthein , Maneesha Sushama Pradeep , Rachel Steinhorst

A generalized analysis of the local entropy production of a simple fluid is used to show that, if intrinsic angular momentum is taken into account, rotational viscosity must arise in the linear non-equilibrium regime. As a consequence, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo , Ana Garcia-Perciante , LS Garcia-Colin

We consider an imperfect relativistic fluid which develops a shock wave and discuss its structure and thickness, taking into account the effects of viscosity and heat conduction in the form of sound absorption. The junction conditions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose A. S. Lima , Alejandra Kandus , Reuven Opher

We compute the longitudinal hydrodynamic flow in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5500 GeV by using boost non-invariant initial conditions following from perturbative QCD. The transfer of entropy and energy from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 K. J. Eskola , K. Kajantie , P. V. Ruuskanen

Based on the previous paper arXiv:1207.5309, we investigate the possibility to find out the bulk viscosity of dual fluid at the finite cutoff surface via gravity/fluid correspondence in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. We find that if we adopt new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-15 Ya-Peng Hu , Yu Tian , Xiao-Ning Wu