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We use linear viscous hydrodynamics to describe the energy and momentum deposited by a fast moving parton in a quark gluon plasma. This energy-momentum is in turn used to compute the probability density for the production of soft partons by…

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This paper is devoted to the study of two-point correlation function of the energy-momentum tensor T_{12}T_{12} for SU(2)-gluodynamics within lattice simulation of QCD. Using multilevel algorithm we carried out the measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-19 N. Yu. Astrakhantsev , V. V. Braguta , A. Yu. Kotov

Energy correlators have recently attracted significant attention in the study of heavy ion collisions due to their potential to robustly connect experimental measurements with an underlying quantum field theoretic description. While…

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These lectures are an introduction to recent developments in the study of the high temperature phase of QCD by using weak coupling techniques. After a brief introduction to some techniques of quantum field theory at finite temperature, I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Paul Blaizot

Heavy-ion collisions create deformed quark-gluon plasma (QGP) fireballs which explode anisotropically. The viscosity of the fireball matter determines its ability to convert the initial spatial deformation into momentum anisotropies that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Zhi Qiu , Ulrich W. Heinz

The transport coefficients of quark gluon plasma are calculated on a lattice 16**3X8, with the pure gauge models. Matsubara Green's functions of energy momentum tensors have very large fluctuations and about a few million MC sweeps are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Sunao Sakai , Atsushi Nakamura , Kazuhisa Amemiya

Experimental probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) generated in heavy-ion collisions span a broad range in momentum scale: low transverse momentum (low $p_T$) measurements probe collective dynamics, while high $p_T$ measurements probe the…

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We provide a general framework for the derivation of the hydrodynamical corrections to the QCD electromagnetic emissivities in a viscous fluid. Assuming that the emission times are short in comparison to the fluid evolution time, we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Yizhuang Liu , Ismail Zahed

We introduce an efficient general method for calculating the self-energies, collective modes, and dispersion relations of quarks and gluons in a momentum-anisotropic high-temperature quark-gluon plasma. The method introduced is applicable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-05 Babak S. Kasmaei , Michael Strickland

Viscous hydrodynamics gives a satisfactory description of the transverse momentum spectra, of the elliptic and triangular flow, and of the femtoscopic correlations for particles produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. On general…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-08 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski , Giorgio Torrieri

In this proceedings contribution I review recent progress in our understanding of the bulk dynamics of relativistic systems that possess potentially large local rest frame momentum-space anisotropies. In order to deal with these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-17 Michael Strickland

The collective modes of QCD at temperatures and densities above its phase-transition are analyzed for isotropic systems as well as for systems having an anisotropy in momentum-space using the HTL approximation. For isotropic systems,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Romatschke

It is shown that the acoustic scaling patterns of anisotropic flow for different event shapes at a fixed collision centrality (shape-engineered events), provide robust constraints for the event-by-event fluctuations in the initial-state…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-11-11 Roy A. Lacey , D. Reynolds , A. Taranenko , N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Fu-Hu Liu , Yi Gu , A. Mwai

Photons are a penetrating probe of the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. We present state-of-the-art calculations of viscous photon emission from nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. Thermal photons anisotropic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Chun Shen , Ulrich Heinz , Jean-Francois Paquet , Charles Gale

We have attempted to build first some simplified model to map the interaction of quarks and gluons, which can be contained by their thermodynamical quantity like entropy density, obtained from calculation of lattice quantum chromo dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarthak Satapathy , Souvik Paul , Ankit Anand , Ranjesh Kumar , Sabyasachi Ghosh

Substantial collective flow is observed in collisions between large nuclei at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) as evidenced by single-particle transverse momentum distributions and by azimuthal correlations among the produced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Laszlo P. Csernai , Joseph. I. Kapusta , Larry D. McLerran

The specific shear viscosity, $\eta/s$, of the quark-gluon plasma formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC is estimated based on the progressive longitudinal broadening of transverse momentum two-particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-08-05 Victor Gonzalez , Sumit Basu , Pedro Ladron de Guevara , Ana Marin , Jinjin Pan , Claude A. Pruneau

The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Strickland

Quark-Gluon plasmas produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions quickly expand and cool, entering a phase consisting of multiple interacting hadronic resonances just below the QCD deconfinement temperature. The transport properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 Paul Romatschke , Scott Pratt

The plasma of quarks and gluons created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions turns out to be paramagnetic. In the presence of a background magnetic field, this paramagnetism thus leads to a pressure anisotropy, similar to anisotropies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 N. Sadooghi , S. M. A. Tabatabaee