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Electron hydrodynamics arises when momentum-relaxing scattering processes are slow compared to momentum-conserving ones. While the microscopic details necessary to satisfy this condition are material-specific, experimentally accessible…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-14 Georgios Varnavides , Adam S. Jermyn , Polina Anikeeva , Prineha Narang

Understanding the applicability of fluid-dynamical models to describe the hot and dense matter produced in the early stages of hadronic collisions is a fundamental problem in the field. In particular, it is not clear to what degree this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Caio V. P. de Brito , Gabriel S. Denicol

In a homogeneous pionic gas system, chemical nonequilibrium process is considered to understand its effect in the expansion processes that are realized immediately after heavy ion collisions. The chemical relaxation time is calculated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Mitsuru Ishii

There are interesting parallels between the physics of heavy ion collisions and cosmology. Both systems are out-of-equilibrium and relativistic fluid dynamics plays an important role for their theoretical description. From a comparison one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Stefan Floerchinger

We investigate aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly coupled field theories within holography. We establish a hydrodynamic description for anomalous quantum field theories subject to a strong external field for the first time in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-21 Sebastian Grieninger

We simulate the space-time dynamics of high-energy collisions based on a microscopic kinetic description, in order to determine the range of applicability of an effective description in relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Victor E. Ambruş , Sören Schlichting , Clemens Werthmann

We develop a combined hydro-kinetic approach which incorporates a hydrodynamical expansion of the systems formed in \textit{A}+\textit{A} collisions and their dynamical decoupling described by escape probabilities. The method corresponds to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Akkelin , Y. Hama , Iu. A. Karpenko , Yu. M. Sinyukov

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

A generic property of a first-order phase transition in equilibrium, and in the limit of large entropy per unit of conserved charge, is the smallness of the isentropic speed of sound in the ``mixed phase''. A specific prediction is that…

In some inertial confinement fusion hohlraum designs, the inside plasma is not sufficiently collisional to be satisfactorily described by the Euler equations implemented in hydrodynamic simulation codes, particularly in converging regions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Olivier Larroche

Using ideal relativistic hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions, we study the collision energy dependence of radial and elliptic flow, of the emitted hadron spectra, and of the transverse momentum dependence of several hadronic particle ratios,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Gregory Kestin , Ulrich W Heinz

The possibility that particle production in high-energy collisions is a result of two asymmetric hydrodynamic flows is investigated, using the Khalatnikov form of the 1+1-dimensional approximation of hydrodynamic equations. The general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-19 Andrzej Bialas , Robi Peschanski

We compare dynamical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and continuum simulations of the dynamics of relaxation of a fluid system characterized by a non uniform density profile. Results match quite well as long as the lengthscale of density…

Dissipative processes in relativistic fluids are known to be important in the analyses of the hot QCD matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this work, I consider dissipative corrections to energy and conserved charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-08 Akihiko Monnai

We continue the study initiated in [arXiv:1708.02252] of the fluctuations of a strongly-coupled non-conformal plasma described holographically by Einstein gravity coupled to a dilaton with an exponential potential. The plasma approaches a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gürsoy , Matti Järvinen , Giuseppe Policastro

Hydrodynamical analysis of experimental data of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions seems to indicate that the hot QCD matter created in the collisions thermalizes very quickly. Theoretically, we have no idea why this should be true. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-20 Aleksi Kurkela

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

This paper discusses possible phenomenological implications for p+A and A+A collisions of the results of recent numerical AdS/CFT calculations examining asymmetric collisions of planar shocks. In view of the extreme Lorentz contraction, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Berndt Müller , Andreas Rabenstein , Andreas Schäfer , Sebastian Waeber , Laurence G. Yaffe

We develop a macroscopic description of the space-time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor during the pre-equilibrium stage of a high-energy heavy-ion collision. Based on a weak coupling effective kinetic description of the microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jean-François Paquet , Sören Schlichting , Derek Teaney

We study universal spatial features of certain non-equilibrium steady states corresponding to flows of strongly correlated fluids over obstacles. This allows us to predict universal spatial features of far-from-equilibrium systems, which in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Igor Novak , Julian Sonner , Benjamin Withers