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In this work we provide analytic and numerical solutions for the Bjorken flow, a standard benchmark in relativistic hydrodynamics providing a simple model for the bulk evolution of matter created in collisions between heavy nuclei. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Daniele Simeoni , Alessandro Gabbana , Sauro Succi

We have investigated the late-time asymptotic solutions, attractor, and focusing behavior of minimal causal spin hydrodynamics in Bjorken expansion. Using the method of dominant balance, we derive the late-time asymptotic solutions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Dong-Lin Wang , Li Yan , Shi Pu

We investigate the non-linear transport processes and hydrodynamization of a system of gluons undergoing longitudinal boost-invariant expansion. The dynamics is described within the framework of the Boltzmann equation in the small-angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 A. Behtash , S. Kamata , M. Martinez , T. Schaefer , V. Skokov

We study the evolution of hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic moments of the distribution function using anisotropic and third-order Chapman-Enskog hydrodynamics for systems undergoing Bjorken and Gubser flows. The hydrodynamic results are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay , Ulrich Heinz , Subrata Pal , Gojko Vujanovic

The pre-equilibrium evolution of a quark-gluon plasma produced in a heavy-ion collision is studied in the framework of kinetic theory. We discuss the approach to local thermal equilibrium, and the onset of hydrodynamics, in terms of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan

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 study the dissipative evolution of (0+1)-dimensionally expanding media with Bjorken symmetry using the Boltzmann equation for massive particles in relaxation-time approximation. Breaking conformal symmetry by a mass induces a non-zero…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay , Sunil Jaiswal , Lipei Du , Ulrich Heinz , Subrata Pal

The one-dimensional non-boost-invariant evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, presumably produced during the early stages of heavy-ion collisions, is analyzed within the frameworks of viscous and anisotropic hydrodynamics. We neglect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland , Leonardo Tinti

In this work, we study the 1+1 longitudinal acceleration expansion of hot and dense quark matter as a conducting relativistic fluid with the electric conductivity $\sigma$. The plasma has embedded in the presence of electric and magnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 A. F. Kord , A. Ghaani , M. Haddadi Moghaddam

Extending the quantum effective approach of Son and Nicolis and incorporating dissipation, we develop a MIS formalism for describing a superfluid out of equilibrium by including the Goldstone boson and the condensate together with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Toshali Mitra , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Alexander Soloviev

We resum the non-equilibrium gradient corrections to a single-particle distribution function evolved by the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation (RTA). We first study a system undergoing Bjorken expansion and show that,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Mike McNelis , Ulrich Heinz

In the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, strong magnetic fields appear due to the large velocity of the colliding charges. The evolution of these fields appears as a novel and intriguing feature in the fluid-dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-03 Victor Roy , Shi Pu , Luciano Rezzolla , Dirk Rischke

This study investigates the evolution of quark gluon plasma (QGP) within a generalized Bjorken flow framework. The medium under consideration is assumed to possess a finite transverse size and to expand both radially and along the beam…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 M. Karimabadi , A. F. Kord , B. Azadegan

Hydrodynamic attractors are a universal phenomenon of strongly interacting systems that describe the hydrodynamic-like evolution far from local equilibrium. In particular, the rapid hydrodynamization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma is behind the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-17 Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Tilman Enss

For the Bjorken flow we investigate the hydrodynamization of different modes of the one-particle distribution function by analyzing its relativistic kinetic equations. We calculate the constitutive relations of each mode written as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Alireza Behtash , C. N. Cruz-Camacho , Syo Kamata , M. Martinez

The gradient expansion is the fundamental organising principle underlying relativistic hydrodynamics, yet understanding its convergence properties for general nonlinear flows has posed a major challenge. We introduce a simple method to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Michal P. Heller , Alexandre Serantes , Michał Spaliński , Viktor Svensson , Benjamin Withers

In large-$N_c$ conformal field theories with classical holographic duals, inverse coupling constant corrections are obtained by considering higher-derivative terms in the corresponding gravity theory. In this work, we use type IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-15 Brandon S. DiNunno , Sašo Grozdanov , Juan F. Pedraza , Steve Young

By solving a simple kinetic equation, in the relaxation time approximation, and for a particular set of moments of the distribution function, we establish a set of equations which, on the one hand, capture exactly the dynamics of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of perfect fluids without boost invariance [1] from kinetic theory. Our approach is to follow the standard derivation of the Vlasov hierarchy based on an a-priori unknown collision functional satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Kevin T. Grosvenor , Niels A. Obers , Subodh P. Patil

In this contributed chapter, I review our current understanding of the applicability of hydrodynamics to modeling the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), focusing on the question of hydrodynamization/thermalization of the QGP and the anisotropic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-16 Michael Strickland