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The search for the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collision experiments requires dynamical simulations of the bulk evolution of QCD matter as well as of fluctuations. We consider two essential ingredients of such a simulation: a generic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 M. Stephanov , Y. Yin

Upcoming experimental programs will look for signatures of a possible critical point in the QCD phase diagram in fluctuation observables. To understand and predict these signatures, one must account for the fact that the dynamics of any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Krishna Rajagopal , Gregory Ridgway , Ryan Weller , Yi Yin

Near the critical point in the QCD phase diagram, hydrodynamics breaks down at a momentum where the frequency of the fastest hydrodynamic mode becomes comparable with the decay rate of the slowest non-hydrodynamic mode. Hydro+ was developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Navid Abbasi , Matthias Kaminski

To describe dynamics of bulk and fluctuations near the QCD critical point we develop general relativistic fluctuation formalism for a fluid carrying baryon charge. Feedback of fluctuations modifies hydrodynamic coefficients including bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 Xin An , Gokce Basar , Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

We analyze the evolution of hydrodynamic fluctuations in a heavy ion collision as the system passes close to the QCD critical point. We introduce two small dimensionless parameters $\lambda$ and $\Delta_s$ to characterize the evolution.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Yukinao Akamatsu , Derek Teaney , Fanglida Yan , Yi Yin

The experimental search for the QCD critical point by means of relativistic heavy-ion collisions necessitates the development of dynamical models of fluctuations. In this work we study the fluctuations of the net-baryon density near the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm

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

For the understanding of fluctuation measurements in heavy-ion collisions it is crucial to develop quantitatively reliable dynamical descriptions which take the non-perturbative nature of QCD near the phase transition into account. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Bluhm , Y. Jiang , M. Nahrgang , J. M. Pawlowski , F. Rennecke , N. Wink

Within the model A in the Hohenberg's dynamical universality classification, we investigate the critical slowing down effects on the critical fluctuations driven by the expanding quark-gluon plasma, using a trajectory and cooling rate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-04 Shian Tang , Shanjin Wu , Huichao Song

A quantitatively reliable theoretical description of the dynamics of fluctuations in non-equilibrium is indispensable in the experimental search for the QCD critical point by means of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Marlene Nahrgang , Marcus Bluhm , Thomas Schaefer , Steffen A. Bass

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

I present an analysis of the relaxation rate for long-wavelength fluctuations of the order parameter in an O(N) scalar theory near the critical point. Our motivation is to model the non-equilibrium dynamics of critical fluctuations near the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michele Simionato

Fluids cooled to the liquid-vapor critical point develop system-spanning fluctuations in density that transform their visual appearance. Despite the rich phenomenology of this critical point, there is not currently an explanation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-09 Moupriya Das , Jason R. Green

We study the evolution of dynamic fluctuations averaged over different space lengths and time scales to characterize spatially and temporally heterogeneous behavior of TIP4P/2005 water in liquid and supercooled states. Analysing a million…

We introduce a freeze-out procedure to convert the critical fluctuations in a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that has, as it expanded and cooled, passed close to a posited critical point on the phase diagram into cumulants of hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Maneesha Pradeep , Krishna Rajagopal , Mikhail Stephanov , Yi Yin

One of the primary goals of nuclear physics is studying the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics, where a hypothetical critical point serves as a landmark. A systematic model-data comparison of heavy-ion collisions at center-of-mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-20 Lipei Du

We introduce a novel freeze-out procedure connecting the hydrodynamic evolution of a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that has, as it expanded and cooled, passed close to a posited critical point on the QCD phase diagram with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-01 Maneesha Pradeep , Krishna Rajagopal , Misha Stephanov , Yi Yin

We propose to describe the time evolution of quasi-stationary fluctuations near QCD critical point by a system of stochastic Boltzmann-Langevin-Vlasov-type equations. We derive the equations and study the system analytically in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 M. A. Stephanov

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we study the dynamical density fluctuations around the critical point(CP) of Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD) using dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics in which the coupling of the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-12 Y. Minami , T. Kunihiro

In this thesis, we study the critical dynamics near the QCD critical point. Near the critical point, the relevant modes for the critical dynamics are identified as the hydrodynamic modes. Thus, we first study the linear dynamics of them by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-23 Yuki Minami
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