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In nuclear and particle physics, reconciling sophisticated simulations with experimental data is vital for understanding complex systems like the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) generated in heavy-ion collisions. However, computational demands…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Hendrik Roch , Syed Afrid Jahan , Chun Shen

We investigate the compression of nuclear matter in relativistic hydrodynamics. Nuclear matter is described by a $\sigma-\omega$--type model for the hadron matter phase and by the MIT bag model for the quark--gluon plasma, with a first…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Dirk H. Rischke , Yaris Puersuen , Joachim A. Maruhn

Dynamical models based on relativistic fluid dynamics provide a powerful tool to extract the properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced by ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. The largest source of uncertainty in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 J. Scott Moreland

The early stage of a heavy-ion collision is marked by rapid entropy production and the transition from a gluon saturated initial condition to a plasma of quarks and gluons that evolves hydrodynamically. However, during the early times of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Andrew Gordeev , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Mueller , Jean-Francois Paquet

The formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy ion collision, is expected to be accompanied by a background of ordinary collision events without phase transition. In this short note an algorithm is proposed to select the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Liu Lianshou , Chen Qinghua , Hu Yuan

We introduce a combined fully three-dimensional macroscopic/microscopic transport approach employing relativistic 3D-hydrodynamics for the early, dense, deconfined stage of the reaction and a microscopic non-equilibrium model for the later…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiho Nonaka , Steffen A. Bass

We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics model describing QGP medium, the dynamics of…

We develop a (3+1)-dimensional hybrid evolution model for heavy-ion collisions with dynamical sources for the energy-momentum tensor and baryon current. During an initial pre-equilibrium stage based on UrQMD, the four-momenta and baryon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Lipei Du , Ulrich Heinz , Gojko Vujanovic

Recent development of a hydrodynamic model is discussed by putting an emphasis on realistic treatment of the early and late stages in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The model, which incorporates a hydrodynamic description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tetsufumi Hirano

In this article, we present a state-of-the-art algorithm for solving the relativistic viscous hydrodynamics equation with the QCD equation of state. The numerical method is based on the second-order Godunov method and has less numerical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Yukinao Akamatsu , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Chiho Nonaka , Makoto Takamoto

We attempt to model Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) evolution from the initial Heavy Ion collision to the final hadronic gas state by combining the Glauber model initial state conditions with eccentricity fluctuations, pre-equilibrium flow, UVH2+1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-21 Betty B. I. Abelev

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, $T\sim 155$ MeV. Numerical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Scott Pratt , Alexander Baez , Jane Kim

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

We construct a new Godunov type relativistic hydrodynamics code in Milne coordinates, using a Riemann solver based on the two-shock approximation which is stable under the existence of large shock waves. We check the correctness of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 Kazuhisa Okamoto , Yukinao Akamatsu , Chiho Nonaka

In ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions, the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) is created. The fluid nature of the sQGP was one of the important discoveries of high energy heavy ion physics in the last decades.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Balint Kurgyis , Mate Csanad

We study how the inclusion of energy dependence as dictated by quantum chromodynamic (QCD) small-$x$ evolution equations affects key observables in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Specifically, we incorporate JIMWLK evolution into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

The expansion of the fireball created in relativistic heavy ion collisions is described using the 3+1D hydrodynamical model. Experimentally observed transverse momentum spectra at different rapdities, elliptic flow and HBT correlations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Piotr Bozek , Iwona Wyskiel

A decade ago brief summary of the field could be formulated as a discovery of strongly-coupled Quark-Gluon-Plasma, sQGP, making a very good liquid with surprisingly small viscosity. Since 2010 we have LHC program, which added a lot to our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Edward Shuryak

We study two recently proposed equations of state (EOS) which are obtained from high temperature QCD, and show how they can be adapted to use them for making predictions for relativistic heavy ion collisions. The method involves extracting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Vinod Chandra , Ravindra Kumar , V. Ravishankar

In this paper, we discuss the matching of the holographic equation of state with the equation of Hadron Resonance Gas for studying the nuclear matter properties within the framework of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Machine learning…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 A. V. Anufriev , V. N. Kovalenko