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Relativistic hydrodynamics for ideal and viscous fluids is discussed as a tool to describe relativistic heavy-ion collisions and to extract transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma from experimentally measured hadron momentum spectra.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Ulrich W. Heinz

A set of kinetic equations is used to study equilibration of the anisotropic quark-gluon plasma produced by decays of color flux tubes possibly created at the very early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The decay rates of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a non-perturbative reorganization of relativistic hydrodynamics that takes into account the large momentum-space anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. As a result, it allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-06 Michael Strickland

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

The contribution presents a summary of the Gauge/Gravity approach to the study of hydrodynamic flow of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. Considering the ideal case of a supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-24 Michal P. Heller , Romuald A. Janik , R. Peschanski

Anisotropic hydrodynamics improves upon standard dissipative fluid dynamics by treating certain large dissipative corrections non-perturbatively. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions feature two such large dissipative effects: (i) Strongly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 M. McNelis , D. Bazow , U. Heinz

We present VAH, a (3+1)-dimensional simulation that evolves the far-from-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions with anisotropic fluid dynamics. We solve the hydrodynamic equations on an Eulerian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 M. McNelis , D. Bazow , U. Heinz

If the matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions reaches thermal equilibrium, its subsequent evolution follows the laws of ideal fluid dynamics. We show that general predictions can be made on this basis alone, irrespective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Borghini , J. -Y. Ollitrault

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

We calculate the drag force experienced by an infinitely massive quark propagating at constant velocity through an anisotropic, strongly coupled N=4 plasma by means of its gravity dual. We find that the gluon cloud trailing behind the quark…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-14 Mariano Chernicoff , Daniel Fernandez , David Mateos , Diego Trancanelli

We calculate leading-order medium photon yields from a quark-gluon plasma using (3+1)-dimensional anisotropic hydrodynamics. Non-equilibrium corrections to the photon rate are taken into account using a self-consistent modification of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland

We calculate leading-order dilepton yields from a quark-gluon plasma which has a time-dependent anisotropy in momentum space. Such anisotropies can arise during the earliest stages of quark-gluon plasma evolution due to the rapid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mauricio Martinez , Michael Strickland

Gubser flow provides an analytic model for describing the spacetime dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions. Along with boost and rotation invariance along the beam axis, the model assumes invariance under a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 Arjun Bagchi , Kedar S. Kolekar , Taniya Mandal , Ashish Shukla

A formalism for anisotropic fluid dynamics is proposed. It is designed to describe boost-invariant systems with anisotropic pressure. Such systems are expected to be produced at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Florkowski

Momentum anisotropy present during the hydrodynamic evolution of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in RHIC may lead to chromo-Weibel instability and turbulent chromo-fields.The dynamics of the quark and gluon momentum distributions in this case is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Vinod Chandra , V. Sreekanth

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration

The contribution presents a brief summary of the Gauge/Gravity approach to the study of hydrodynamic flow of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions, in a boost-invariant setting (Bjorken flow). Considering the ideal case of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 R. A. Janik , Robi Peschanski

My dissertation is about the formulation and application of anisotropic hydrodynamics as a successful non-equilibrium hydrodynamics model for studying the QGP. For this purpose, I introduce the basic conformal anisotropic hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-08 Mohammad Nopoush

The evolution of magnetized quark gluon plasma (QGP) in the framework of magneto-hydrodynamics is the focus of our study. We are investigating the temporal and spatial evolution of QGP using a second order viscous hydrodynamic framework.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-05 M. karimabadi , A. F. Kord , B. Azadegan

We calculate the rapidity dependence of leading-order medium dilepton yields resulting from a quark-gluon plasma which has a local time-dependent anisotropy in momentum space. We present a phenomenological model which includes temporal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Mauricio Martinez , Michael Strickland