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We compute the initial energy densities produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions from NLO perturbative QCD using a saturation conjecture to control soft particle production, and describe the subsequent space-time evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 H. Niemi , K. J. Eskola , R. Paatelainen , K. Tuominen

We have investigated the build up of anisotropic flows within a parton cascade approach at fixed shear viscosity to entropy density \eta/s to study the generation of collective flows in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We present a…

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The first results from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider for charged particle spectra and elliptic flow are compared to an event-by-event hybrid approach with an ideal hydrodynamic expansion. This approach has been shown to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Hannah Petersen

In the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program, gold nuclei are collided with different collision energies in the range from few to 62.4 GeV. The goals of the program are to explore the onset of QGP creation, locate the critical point of QCD and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-14 Jakub Cimerman , Iurii Karpenko , Boris Tomasik , Barbara Antonina Trzeciak

The specific shear viscosity, $\eta/s$, of the quark-gluon plasma formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC is estimated based on the progressive longitudinal broadening of transverse momentum two-particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-08-05 Victor Gonzalez , Sumit Basu , Pedro Ladron de Guevara , Ana Marin , Jinjin Pan , Claude A. Pruneau

We calculate initial conditions for the hydrodynamical evolution in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC in an improved next-to-leading order perturbative QCD + saturation framework. Using viscous relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Paatelainen , K. J. Eskola , H. Holopainen , H. Niemi , K. Tuominen

Thermal and transport properties of hot nuclear matter formed in central $^{129}$Xe + $^{119}$Sn collisions at the Fermi energy are investigated using the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamical (IQMD) model. Temperature ($T$),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-22 H. L. Liu , Y. G. Ma , A. Bonasera , X. G. Deng , O. Lopez , M. Veselský

In this talk I report my recent study on the shear viscosity of neutron-rich nuclear matter from a relaxation time approach. An isospin- and momentum-dependent interaction is used in the study. Effects of density, temperature, and isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-31 Jun Xu

We perform a global analysis of deep-inelastic $e+p$ scattering data from HERA and transverse energy distributions in $p+p$ and $p+\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions, alongside charged hadron multiplicities in $\mathrm{Pb}+\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions at…

The specific shear viscosity (eta/s)_QGP of a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) at temperatures T_c < T < 2T_c is extracted from the centrality dependence of the eccentricity-scaled elliptic flow measured in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Huichao Song , Steffen A. Bass , Ulrich W. Heinz , Tetsufumi Hirano , Chun Shen

The transport property of cold and dense nucleon matter is important for nuclear physics but is relatively less studied than that at finite temperatures. In this paper, we present a primary study of bulk and shear viscosities in the limit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 Jianing Li , Weiyao Ke

We apply a 3+1D viscous hydrodynamic + cascade model to the heavy ion collision reactions with $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=6.3\dots39$ GeV. To accommodate the model for a given collision energy range, the initial conditions for hydrodynamic phase are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-08 Iu. Karpenko , M. Bleicher , P. Huovinen , H. Petersen

Suspension of particles in a fluid solvent are ubiquitous in nature, for example, water mixed with sugar or bacteria self-propelling through mucus. Particles create local flow perturbations that can modify drastically the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 S. Dang , C. Blanch-Mercader , L. Berlyand

Accurately measuring liquid dynamic viscosity across a wide range of shear rates, from the linear-response to shear-thinning regimes, presents significant experimental challenges due to limitations in resolving high shear rates and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Hongyu Gao , Minghe Zhu , Jia Ma , Marc Honecker , Kexian Li

The correlation between the mean transverse momentum, $[p_{\mathrm{T}}]$, and the squared anisotropic flow, $v^{2}_{n}$, on an event-by-event basis has been suggested to be influenced by the initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions. We…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-14 The STAR Collaboration

Longitudinal hydrodynamic expansion of the fluid created in relativistic heavy-collisions is considered taking into account shear viscosity. Both a on-vanishing viscosity and a soft equation of state make particle distributions in rapidity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-13 Piotr Bozek

Entropy production and an effective viscosity in central Au+Au collisions are estimated in a wide range of incident energies 3.3 GeV $\le \sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$ 39 GeV. The simulations are performed within a three-fluid model employing three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Yu. B. Ivanov , A. A. Soldatov

We study the shear and bulk viscosity coefficients as well as the thermal conductivity as arising from the collisions among phonons in superfluid neutron stars. We use effective field theory techniques to extract the allowed phonon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 Laura Tolos , Cristina Manuel , Sreemoyee Sarkar , Jaume Tarrus

It is shown that the acoustic scaling patterns of anisotropic flow for different event shapes at a fixed collision centrality (shape-engineered events), provide robust constraints for the event-by-event fluctuations in the initial-state…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-11-11 Roy A. Lacey , D. Reynolds , A. Taranenko , N. N. Ajitanand , J. M. Alexander , Fu-Hu Liu , Yi Gu , A. Mwai

If the matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions reaches thermal equilibrium, its subsequent evolution follows the laws of ideal fluid dynamics. We show that general predictions can be made on this basis alone, irrespective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Borghini , J. -Y. Ollitrault