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There is mounting evidence suggesting that relativistic hydrodynamics becomes relevant for the physics of quark-gluon plasma as the result of nonhydrodynamic modes decaying to an attractor apparent even when the system is far from local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-14 Michał Spaliński

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

We describe the energy distribution of hard gluons travelling through a dense quark-gluon plasma whose temperature increases linearly with time, within a probabilistic perturbative approach. The results were applied to the thermalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-21 F. G. Ben , M. V. T. Machado

Quark-gluon plasma's (QGP) properties at non-hydrodynamic and non-perturbative regimes remain largely unexplored. Here, we examine the response functions describing how a QGP-like plasma responds to initial energy-momentum disturbance in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Weiyao Ke , Yi Yin

We study the response function which describes the evolution of energy density induced by an initial disturbance for a Bjorken-expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We compare the results from solving linearized Boltzmann equation under the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Weiyao Ke , Yi Yin

Nonthermal fixed points are paradigmatic far-from-equilibrium phenomena of relevance to high-energy physics, cosmology, and cold atomic gases. We propose that, despite their intrinsically nonequilibrium nature, nonthermal fixed points give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Jürgen Berges , Gabriel S. Denicol , Michal P. Heller , Thimo Preis

Fluid dynamics is traditionally thought to apply only to systems near local equilibrium. In this case, the effective theory of fluid dynamics can be constructed as a gradient series. Recent applications of resurgence suggest that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Paul Romatschke

Prescaling is a far-from-equilibrium phenomenon which describes the rapid establishment of a universal scaling form of distributions much before the universal values of their scaling exponents are realized. We consider the example of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-30 Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jürgen Berges

Recently, a lot of effort has been put into describing the thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma using the gauge/gravity duality. In this context we here present a full numerical solution of the early far-from-equilibrium formation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-26 Wilke van der Schee

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

We discuss the non-equilibrium attractors of systems undergoing Gubser flow within kinetic theory by means of nonlinear dynamical systems. We obtain the attractors of anisotropic hydrodynamics, Israel-Stewart (IS) and transient fluid (DNMR)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-27 Nikolás Cruz-Camacho , Mauricio Martinez

The quark-gluon plasma created in a relativistic heavy-ion collisions possesses a sizable pressure anisotropy in the local rest frame at very early times after the initial nuclear impact and this anisotropy only slowly relaxes as the system…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-27 Michael Strickland

Experimental results on azimuthal correlations in high energy nuclear collisions (nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton) seem to be well described by viscous hydrodynamics. It is often argued that this agreement implies either…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Paul Romatschke

The dissipation associated with nonequilibrium flow processes is reflected by the formation of strange attractor distributions in phase space. The information dimension of these attractors is less than that of the equilibrium phase space,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wm. G. Hoover , H. A. Posch , K. Aoki , D. Kusnezov

In recent years, there have been important advances in understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics in different physical systems. In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the combination of different methods led to the development of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-20 Kirill Boguslavski

We derive relativistic viscous hydrodynamic equations invoking the generalized second law of thermodynamics for two different forms of the non-equilibrium single-particle distribution function. We find that the relaxation times in these two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Amaresh Jaiswal , Subrata Pal , V. Sreekanth

We consider non-equilibrium evolution of non-Gaussian fluctuations within relativistic hydrodynamics relevant for the QCD critical point search in heavy-ion collision experiments. We rely on the hierarchy of relaxation time scales, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Xin An , Gokce Basar , Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

We investigate whether hydrodynamic attractors are present in simulations of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. We argue that Lagrangian schemes to solve the relativistic viscous fluid equations can be particularly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

When two nuclei collide close to the speed of light, a fluid state known as the quark-gluon plasma is formed. Attempts to understand the dynamics of this fluid have generated significant research into dissipative relativistic fluid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha , Lorenzo Gavassino

We use a set of simple angular moments to solve the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation for a boost invariant longitudinally expanding gluonic plasma. The transition from the free streaming regime at early time to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan