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General features of the formalism describing hydrodynamic evolution of transversally thermalized matter possibly produced at the very early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are presented. Thermodynamical consistency of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Radoslaw Ryblewski

In the Hermite-expansion-based multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) model [Shan & Chen, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, 18, 635, (2007)], a separate relaxation time is assigned to each of the tensorial moments of the collision term. Here…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Xuhui Li , Xiaowen Shan

State-of-the-art hydrodynamic models of heavy-ion collisions have considerable theoretical model uncertainties in the description of the very early pre-hydrodynamic stage. We add a new computational module, K$_\mathrm{T}$Iso, that describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Dananjaya Liyanage , Derek Everett , Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay , Ulrich Heinz

A new transient effective theory of the relativistic Boltzmann equation is derived for locally momentum-anisotropic systems. In the expansion of the distribution function around a local "quasi-equilibrium" state a non-hydrodynamic dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Dennis Bazow , Mauricio Martinez , Ulrich W. Heinz

The onset of hydrodynamics in the hot medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a crucial theoretical question. A first-principle simulation requires a real-time, non-perturbative calculation of the quantum system. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-16 Haiyang Shao , Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

We formulate a relativistic hydrodynamic theory for fluids with spin and intrinsic dilation charges. Using an entropy-current analysis, we derive constitutive relations featuring a bulk viscosity and a dilation conductivity governing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 Zhong-Hua Zhang , Xi-Hu Lv , Xu-Guang Huang

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

In this study, we investigate the linear transport of neutral system within the framework of relativistic kinetic theory. Under the relaxation time approximation, we obtain an iterative solution to the relativistic Boltzmann equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 Long Cui , Xin Hao , Liu Zhao

The momentum distribution of particle production in heavy-ion collisions encodes information about thermalization processes in the early-stage quark-gluon plasma. We use kinetic theory to study the far-from-equilibrium evolution of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-05 Jasmine Brewer , Weiyao Ke , Li Yan , Yi Yin

[Background] Experimental data from heavy-ion experiments at RHIC-BNL and LHC-CERN are quantitatively described using relativistic fluid dynamics. Even p+A and p+p collisions show signs of collective behavior describable in the same manner.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 K. Gallmeister , H. Niemi , C. Greiner , D. H. Rischke

After a sudden disruption, weakly interacting quantum systems first relax to a prethermalized state that can be described by perturbation theory and a generalized Gibbs ensemble. Using these properties of the prethermalized state we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-27 Michael Stark , Marcus Kollar

Hydrodynamics is applied to describe the dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The focus of the present study is the influence of a possible (phase) transition to the quark-gluon plasma in the nuclear matter equation of state on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Dirk H. Rischke

In an effort to address integrability breaking in cold gas experiments, we extend the integrable hydrodynamics of the 1d Lieb-Liniger model with two additional components representing the population of atoms in the first and second…

We formulate the relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics of a system of quasi-particles from the Boltzmann equation within the ambit of relaxation time approximation with modified collision kernels. We focus on two specific scenarios with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Arghya Mukherjee , Samapan Bhadury , Pracheta Singha

The evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision is typically understood as a process that transmutes the initial geometry of the system into the final momentum distribution of observed hadrons, which can be described via a cumulant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Jefferson Sousa , Jorge Noronha , Matthew Luzum

We study first and second order theories of relativistic diffusion coupled to hydrodynamics under the approximation, valid at mid-rapidity in the RHIC and LHC, that conserved number densities are much smaller than the entropy density. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Sourendu Gupta

In this lecture note, we present several topics on relativistic hydrodynamics and its application to relativistic heavy ion collisions. In the first part we give a brief introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics in the context of heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsufumi Hirano , Naomi van der Kolk , Ante Bilandzic

In this article, we extend the Boltzmann framework for polyatomic gases by introducing quasi-resonant kernels, which relax resonant interactions, for which kinetic and internal energies are separately conserved and lead to equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Thomas Borsoni , Laurent Boudin , Julien Mathiaud , Francesco Salvarani

We use effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling, to simulate the pre-equilibrium evolution of transverse energy and flow perturbations in heavy-ion collisions. We provide a Green function which propagates the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Liam Keegan , Aleksi Kurkela , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Derek Teaney

We consider a plasma of massless particles undergoing Bjorken expansion, mimicking the matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We study the transition to hydrodynamics using kinetic theory in the relaxation time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan