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The early stages in the evolution of the gluons produced in the central region of a head-on high-energy heavy ion collision is studied. An equation is given for the rate of change of transverse momentum into longitudinal momentum where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. H. Mueller

A further development of the evolutionary picture of A+A collisions, which we call the integrated HydroKinetic Model (iHKM), is proposed. The model comprises a generator of the initial state GLISSANDO, pre-thermal dynamics of A+A collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-08 V. Yu. Naboka , Iu. A. Karpenko , Yu. M. Sinyukov

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

We investigate the effects of nonequilibrium dynamics in small colliding systems by comparing a nonequilibrium transport approach, the Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (PHSD), with a (2+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model, VISHNew. Focusing on p+Pb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Lucia Oliva , Wenkai Fan , Pierre Moreau , Steffen A. Bass , Elena Bratkovskaya

We study the properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma with a multistage model of heavy ion collisions that combines the T$_\mathrm{R}$ENTo initial condition ansatz, free-streaming, viscous relativistic hydrodynamics, and a…

We use effective kinetic theory to study the pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. We describe the evolution of linearized energy perturbations on top of out-of-equilibrium background to the energy-momentum tensor at a time when…

Heavy-ion collisions can be well described through relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, but questions still remain when hydrodynamics is applicable because the initial state may begin very far-from-equilibrium. Thus, a pre-equilibrium…

While hybrid approaches of relativistic hydrodynamics+transport have been well established for the dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions at high beam energies, moving to lower beam energies is challenging. In this work, we propose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Renan Góes-Hirayama , Joscha Egger , Zuzana Paulínyová , Iurii Karpenko , Hannah Elfner

We present a coupled Boltzmann and hydrodynamics approach to relativistic heavy ion reactions. This hybrid approach is based on the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) transport approach with an intermediate hydrodynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hannah Petersen , Jan Steinheimer , Gerhard Burau , Marcus Bleicher , Horst Stöcker

Within an advanced Langevin-hydrodynamics framework coupled to a hybrid fragmentation-coalescence hadronization model, we study heavy flavor quenching and flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We investigate how the initial heavy quark…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-27 Shu-Qing Li , Wen-Jing Xing , Feng-Lei Liu , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

The pre-equilibrium evolution of a quark-gluon plasma produced in a heavy-ion collision is studied in the framework of kinetic theory. We discuss the approach to local thermal equilibrium, and the onset of hydrodynamics, in terms of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan

It has been over a decade since the first experimental data from gold nuclei collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider suggested hydrodynamic behavior. While early ideal hydrodynamical models were surprisingly accurate in their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-30 Joshua Vredevoogd

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

In order to estimate qualitatively the influence of nonequilibrium evolution in relativistic heavy ion collisions, we use the three dimensional Ising model with Metropolis algorithm to study the evolution from nonequilibrium to equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-10 Xiaobing Li , Mingmei Xu , Yanhua Zhang , Zhiming Li , Yu Zhou , Jinghua Fu , Yuanfang Wu

Complete evolution of the strongly interacting matter formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied within a coupled Boltzmann and relativistic viscous hydrodynamics approach. For the initial nonequilibrium evolution phase, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-14 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Amaresh Jaiswal , Subrata Pal

Heavy-ion collisions are well described by a dynamical evolution with a long hydrodynamical phase. In this phase the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma are reflected in the equation of state (EoS) and the transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-06 A. Dubla , S. Masciocchi , J. M. Pawlowski , B. Schenke , C. Shen , J. Stachel

Modelling Quark-Gluon Plasma formation and decay in high energy heavy ion reactions is presented in a framework of a multi-module setup. The collective features, governing the equlibrated fluid dynamical stages of the model are emphasized.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Csernai , A. Anderlik , Cs. Anderlik , A. Keranen , V. K. Magas , J. Manninen , E. Molnar , A. Nyiri , B. R. Schlei , D. D. Strottman , K. Tamosiunas

We present an overview of the current state of understanding of the early time dynamics of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, emphasizing recent developments and connections between the physics of the initial state and that of hard probes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-01 S. Schlichting

The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

We study the importance of the initial state, baryon stopping and baryon number transport for the dynamical evolution of a strongly interacting system produced in heavy ion collisions. We employ a hybrid model, which combines the fluid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Steinheimer , V. Koch , M. Bleicher