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We study the thermodynamic and transport properties of hot and dense quantum chromodynamic matter expected to be produced in low-energy heavy-ion collisions, using three different effective quantum chromodynamic frameworks: the…

We generalize the derivation of viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics from kinetic theory to allow for non-zero particle masses. The macroscopic theory is obtained by taking moments of the Boltzmann equation after expanding the distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-26 Dennis Bazow , Ulrich W. Heinz , Mauricio Martinez

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been extensively applied to high energy heavy-ion collisions. We review hydrodynamic calculations for Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies and provide a comprehensive comparison between the model and experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Kolb , Ulrich Heinz

Using a viscosity-based survival scale for geometrical perturbations formed in the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, we model the radial flow velocity during freeze-out. Subsequently, we employ the Cooper-Frye freeze-out…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-02 Amaresh Jaiswal , Volker Koch

Heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} \sim 10$ GeV probe the QCD phase diagram at large baryon densities. Because the longitudinal Lorentz contraction is small at these collision energies, understanding the dynamics during the early…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Chun Shen , Abel Noble , Jean-François Paquet , Björn Schenke , Charles Gale

We study the collision energy dependence of elliptic flow v_2 and triangular flow v_3 in Au+Au collisions within the energy range sqrt(s_{NN}) = 5-200 GeV, utilizing a transport + hydrodynamics hybrid model. The transport part is described…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-11 Jussi Auvinen , Hannah Petersen

We study the shear and bulk viscosities of partonic and hadronic matter as functions of temperature T within the parton-hadron-string dynamics (PHSD) off-shell transport approach. Dynamical hadronic and partonic systems in equilibrium are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Ozvenchuk , O. Linnyk , M. I. Gorenstein , E. L. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing

We have calculated microscopically bulk viscosity of hadronic matter, where equilibrium thermodynamics for all hadrons in medium are described by Hadron Resonance Gas (HRG) model. Considering pions and nucleons as abundant medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-20 Sabyasachi Ghosh , Sandeep Chatterjee , Bedangdas Mohanty

We develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations to describe the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia inside the quark-gluon plasma. The quarkonium dissociation and recombination terms are calculated from pNRQCD. Their interplay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen Bass , Berndt Müller

We discuss the use of the hydrodynamic model for the description of the evolution of dense matter formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The collective flow observed in heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

The main focus of this article is to obtain various transport coefficients for a hot QCD medium that is produced while colliding two heavy nuclei ultra-relativistically. As the hot QCD medium follows dissipative hydrodynamics while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

A new set of equations for relativistic viscous hydrodynamics that captures both weak-coupling and strong-coupling physics to second order in gradients has been developed recently. We apply this framework to bulk physics at RHIC, both for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Matthew Luzum , Paul Romatschke

The space-time evolution of the hot and dense fireball of quarks and gluons produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at non-zero baryonic chemical potential and temperature has been studied by using relativistic viscous causal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Sushant K. Singh , Jan-e Alam

In this proceeding, we review our recent work using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify the nature of the QCD transition in a hybrid modeling of heavy-ion collisions. Within this hybrid model, a viscous hydrodynamic model is…

Recent studies based on non-perturbative lattice Monte-Carlo solutions of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, demonstrated that at high temperature there is a phase change from confined hadronic matter to a deconfined…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Andronic , P. Braun-Munzinger , K. Redlich , J. Stachel

We calculate the bulk viscosity, drag force and jet quenching parameter in Improved Holographic QCD. We find that the bulk viscosity rises near the phase transition but does not exceed the shear viscosity. The drag force shows the effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-19 Umut Gürsoy , Elias Kiritsis , Georgios Michalogiorgakis , Francesco Nitti

The quark gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most interesting forms of matter providing us with insight on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the early universe. It is believed that the heavy-ion collision experiments at the Relativistic Heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Wenkai Fan

The transverse momentum dependence of elliptic flow of pions calculated in a full (3+1)d Boltzmann approach with an intermediate hydrodynamic stage for heavy ion reactions for CERN-SPS energies is discussed in the context of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 H. Petersen , J. Steinheimer , G. Burau , M. Bleicher

We extend the applicability of the hydrodynamics, perturbative QCD and saturation -based EKRT (Eskola-Kajantie-Ruuskanen-Tuominen) framework for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions to peripheral collisions by introducing dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-03 H. Hirvonen , K. J. Eskola , H. Niemi

Heavy-flavor particles are excellent probes of the properties of the hot and dense nuclear medium created in the relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-flavor transport coefficients in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) stage of the collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-10 Weiyao Ke