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The dependence of the bulk viscosity with the relativistic parameter $z=kT/mc^{2}$, obtained through the complete Boltzmann equation [1,2], is thoroughly analyzed. A complete and rigorous examination of the relevant non-relativistic and…
The particle spectra and Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) radius of Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy are investigated by a hydrodynamical expanding source with both shear and bulk viscosities ($\zeta$). With a large width of the ratio of $\zeta$ to…
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A theoretical framework for the calculation of shear and bulk viscosities of hadronic matter at finite temperature is presented. The framework is based on the quasi-particle picture. It allows for an arbitrary number of hadron species with…
We describe ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC with a hybrid model using the IP-Glasma model for the earliest stage and viscous hydrodynamics and microscopic transport for the later stages of the collision. We…
Starting from a Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework, based on a running-coupling improved $k_T$-factorized formula, we calculate bulk observables in several heavy-ion collision systems. This is done in two ways: first we calculate the…
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Using the newly developed hybrid model VISHNU which connects viscous hydrodynamics with a hadron cascade model, we study the differential and integrated elliptic flow v_2 at different centrality bins for 200 A GeV Au+Au collisions and 2.76…
A Bayesian calibration, using experimental data from 2.76 $A$ TeV Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, of a novel hybrid model is presented in which the usual pre-hydrodynamic and viscous relativistic fluid dynamic (vRFD) stages are replaced by a…
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