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I present an overview of recent theoretical results on fluctuations of conserved charges in heavy-ion collisions obtained in relativistic hydrodynamics and molecular dynamics frameworks. In particular, I discuss the constraints on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Volodymyr Vovchenko

We review several facets of the hydrodynamic description of the relativistic heavy ion collisions, starting from the historical motivation to the present understandings of the observed collective aspects of experimental data, especially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-04 Rafael Derradi de Souza , Tomoi Koide , Takeshi Kodama

Relativistic hydrodynamics is essential to our current understanding of nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultrarelativistic energies (current experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, forthcoming experiments at the CERN Large Hadron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean-Yves Ollitrault

In the course of the past several years holography has emerged as an ab initio tool in exploring strongly-time-dependent phenomena in gauge theories. These lecture notes overview recent developments in this area driven by phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-10 Michal P. Heller

Anisotropic flow of hadrons is studied in heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC energies within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. The model was found to reproduce correctly many of the flow features, e.g., the wiggle structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Zabrodin , L. Bravina , C. Fuchs , A. Faessler

Some recent developments in exact results in relativistic hydrodynamics is reviewed. We discuss phenomenological applications in high-energy collisions and theoretical features of the solutions. We compare the method of numerical modelling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-11 M. I. Nagy

The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Federica Capellino , Eduardo Grossi , Stefan Floerchinger

It is shown how the initial azimuthally asymmetric flow develops from the free-streaming + sudden equilibration approximation to the early dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Consequences for the hydrodynamics and physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-24 Wojciech Broniowski , Wojciech Florkowski , Mikolaj Chojnacki , Adam Kisiel

We evaluate the full opacity dependence of collective flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions within a microscopic kinetic description based on the Boltzmann equation in the conformal relaxation time approximation. By comparing kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Victor E. Ambrus , S. Schlichting , C. Werthmann

The relativistic hydrodynamic model is applied to describe the expansion of the dense matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The hydrodynamic expansion of the fluid, supplemented with the statistical emission of hadrons at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Piotr Bozek

We investigate how the initial geometry of a heavy-ion collision is transformed into final flow observables by solving event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics with realistic fluctuating initial conditions. We study quantitatively to what extent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-06 Fernando G. Gardim , Frederique Grassi , Matthew Luzum , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We give a pedagogical review of relativistic hydrodynamics relevant to relativistic heavy ion collisions. Topics discussed include linear response theory derivation of 2nd order viscous hydrodynamics including the Kubo formulas, kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-22 Sangyong Jeon , Ulrich Heinz

We present a complete set of multiparticle correlation observables for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These include moments of the distribution of the anisotropic flow in a single harmonic, and also mixed moments, which contain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Subrata Pal

The recently measured correlations between the flow angles associated with higher harmonics in the anisotropic flow generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are shown to be of hydrodynamic origin. The correlation strength is found to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Zhi Qiu , Ulrich W. Heinz

I review the recent progress in measuring elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. These measurements show clearly how hydrodynamics starts to develop as the system size is increased from peripheral to central collisions. During this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Derek Teaney

Event-by-event fluctuations in the initial conditions for a hydrodynamical description of heavy-ion collisions are characterized. We propose a Bessel-Fourier decomposition with respect to the azimuthal angle, the radius in the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The recently formulated framework of anisotropic hydrodynamics is used in 3+1 dimensions to study behavior of matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The model predictions for various hadronic observables show that the effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 W. Florkowski , M. Martinez , R. Ryblewski , M. Strickland

We develop a far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic model to evolve ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in event-by-event simulations. Anisotropic hydrodynamics is designed to better handle the strong and highly anisotropic expansion during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-14 Mike McNelis

In this thesis, I show my Ph.D. work on event-by-event hydrodynamic simulations for relativistic heavy-ion collision. I show that event-by-event hydrodynamic simulations have become an indispensable tool for studying relativistic heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-15 Zhi Qiu

A framework combining Yang-Mills dynamics of the pre-equilibrium glasma with relativistic viscous hydrodynamic evolution of the quark-gluon plasma and hadron gas phases is presented. Event-by-event fluctuations of nucleon positions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan