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In these lectures I present the key ideas driving the field of relativistic heavy-ion physics and develop some of the theoretical tools needed for the description and interpretation of heavy-ion collision experiments.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich W. Heinz

A new class of simple and exact solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics is presented, and the consequences are explored in data analysis. The effects of longitudinal work and acceleration are taken into account in an advanced estimate of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Csorgo , M. I. Nagy , M. Csanad

We explore a new action formulation of hyperfluids, fluids with intrinsic hypermomentum. Brown's Lagrangian for a relativistic perfect fluid is generalised by incorporating the degrees of freedom encoded in the hypermomentum tensor, namely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Damianos Iosifidis , Tomi S. Koivisto

The hydrodynamic description of a superfluid is usually based on a two-fluid picture. In this thesis, basic properties of such a relativistic two-fluid system are derived from the underlying microscopic physics of a complex scalar quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-03 Stephan Stetina

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

Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at an energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 65 {\rm GeV}$ are studied in a three-dimensional Fluid Dynamical model. The results of a hydrodynamical evolution using the PIC-method are shown. The importance and…

We present a first calculation of the dilepton yield and elliptic flow done with 3+1D viscous hydrodynamical simulations of relativistic heavy ion collisions at the top RHIC energy. A comparison with recent experimental data from the STAR…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Vujanovic , C. Young , B. Schenke , S. Jeon , R. Rapp , C. Gale

We revisit the use of ideal hydrodynamics to describe bulk- and multistrange-hadron observables in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Toward this end we augment the 2+1-dimensional code "AZHYDRO" by employing (a) an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

I compare the first viscous hydrodynamic prediction for integrated elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with the first data released by the ALICE collaboration. These new data are found to be consistent with hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Matthew Luzum

This dissertation is about the study of three important issues in the theory of relativistic fluid dynamics: the stability of dissipative fluid dynamics, the shear viscosity, and fluid dynamics with triangle anomaly.(1)The second order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-31 Shi Pu

The relativistic hydrodynamic approach is used to describe production of strangeness and/or heavy quarks in ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions. Production processes are important ingredients of dissipative effects in the hadronic liquid.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Turko

The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Federica Capellino , Eduardo Grossi , Stefan Floerchinger

We propose a new approach to initialize the hydrodynamic fields such as energy density distributions and four flow velocity fields in hydrodynamic modeling of high-energy nuclear collisions at the collider energies. Instead of matching the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-09 Michito Okai , Koji Kawaguchi , Yasuki Tachibana , Tetsufumi Hirano

In this talk we present results obtained when fluid dynamical fluctuations are included in relativistic $3+1$ dimensional viscous fluid dynamics. We discuss effects of the interactions of fluctuations due to nonlinearities and the cutoff…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-13 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schäfer , Steffen Bass

Transport is one of the most important physical processes in all energy and length scales. Ideal gases and hydrodynamics are, respectively, two opposite limits of transport. Here, we present an unexpected mathematical connection between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-13 Zhe-Yu Shi , Chao Gao , Hui Zhai

In high energy collisions of heavy-ions, experimental findings of collective flow are customarily associated with the presence of a thermalized medium expanding according to the laws of hydrodynamics. Recently, the ATLAS, CMS and ALICE…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Habich , G. A. Miller , P. Romatschke , W. Xiang

We propose to study the fluid dynamic propagation of fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions differentially with respect to their azimuthal, radial and longitudinal wavelength. To this end, we introduce a background-fluctuation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-13 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

This presents an overview of relativistic hydrodynamic modeling in heavy-ion collisions prepared for Hot Quarks 2016, at South Padre Island, TX, USA. The influence of the initial state and viscosity on various experimental observables are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

The first-order textbook formulations of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics are unstable and acausal. These shortcomings may be rectified by using effective theories which maintain stability and causality. In this dissertation, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Raphael E. Hoult

Hydrodynamics is a general theoretical framework for describing the long-time large-distance behaviors of various macroscopic physical systems, with its equations based on conservation laws such as energy-momentum conservation and charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Duan She , Anping Huang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao