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Relativistic heavy ion collisions produce nuclei-sized droplets of quark-gluon plasma whose expansion is well described by viscous hydrodynamic calculations. Over the past half decade, this formalism was also found to apply to smaller…

Relativistic hydrodynamics represents a powerful tool to investigate the time evolution of the strongly interacting quark gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The equations are solved often numerically, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-22 Mate Csanad , Marton I. Nagy , Ze-Fang Jiang , Tamas Csorgo

The dynamical development of collective flow is studied in a (3+1)D fluid dynamical model, with globally symmetric, peripheral initial conditions, which take into account the shear flow caused by the forward motion on the projectile side…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-05-02 L. P. Csernai , D. D. Strottman , Cs. Anderlik

One of the long-standing problems in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is that the dynamical models based on viscous hydrodynamics fail to describe the experimental elliptic flow $v_2$ and the triangular flow $v_3$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Kenshi Kuroki , Azumi Sakai , Koichi Murase , Tetsufumi Hirano

The hydrodynamic description of transversally thermalized matter, possibly formed at the early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, is developed. The formalism is based on the thermodynamically consistent approach with all…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Mikolaj Chojnacki , Wojciech Florkowski

We formulate Carroll hydrodynamics with the inclusion of a spin current. Our strategy relies on the fact that the $c\to 0$ limit of relativistic hydrodynamics yields the equations of Carroll hydrodynamics. Starting with the pre-ultralocal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashish Shukla , Rajeev Singh , Pushkar Soni

We present a novel approach to the treatment of thermal fluctuations in the (3+1)-D viscous hydrodynamic simulation MUSIC. The phenomenological impact of thermal fluctuations on hadronic observables is investigated using the IP-Glasma +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Mayank Singh , Chun Shen , Scott McDonald , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

The quark-gluon plasma, possibly created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, is a strongly interacting many-body parton system. By comparison with strongly coupled electromagnetic plasmas (classical and non-relativistic) it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Markus H. Thoma

We calculate diffusion and hadronization of heavy quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions implementing the notion of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in both micro- and macroscopic components. The diffusion process is simulated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

Posterior distributions for physical parameters describing relativistic heavy-ion collisions, such as the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma, are extracted through a comparison of hydrodynamic-based transport models to experimental results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 John Novak , Kevin Novak , Scott Pratt , J. Vredevoogd , Chris Coleman-Smith , Robert Wolpert

We explore theoretical uncertainties in the hydrodynamic description of relativistic heavy-ion collisions by examining the full non-linear causality conditions and quantifying the second-order transport coefficients' role on flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Cheng Chiu , Chun Shen

The initial distribution of gluons at the very early times after a high energy heavy ion collision is described by the bulk scale $Q_s$ of gluon saturation in the nuclear wavefunction. The subsequent evolution of the system towards kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Jefferson Bjoraker , Raju Venugopalan

We study the evolution of the quark-gluon composition of the plasma created in ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (uRHIC's) employing a partonic transport theory that includes both elastic and inelastic collisions plus a mean fields…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-09 F. Scardina , M. Colonna , S. Plumari , V. Greco

The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Andreas Kirchner , Federica Capellino , Eduardo Grossi , Stefan Floerchinger

Strongly correlated quantum fluids are phases of matter that are intrinsically quantum mechanical, and that do not have a simple description in terms of weakly interacting quasi-particles. Two systems that have recently attracted a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Allan Adams , Lincoln D. Carr , Thomas Schaefer , Peter Steinberg , John E. Thomas

Two-particle momentum correlations between pairs of identical particles produced in relativistic heavy-ion reactions can be analyzed to extract the space-time structure of the collision fireball. We review recent progress in the application…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Ulrich Heinz , Barbara V. Jacak

We present a quantitative study of vorticity formation in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at sqrt(s)NN = 200 GeV by using the ECHO-QGP numerical code, implementing relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics in the causal…

The recently measured correlations between the flow angles associated with higher harmonics in the anisotropic flow generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are shown to be of hydrodynamic origin. The correlation strength is found to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Zhi Qiu , Ulrich W. Heinz

We study the production and the evolution of quark-gluon plasma expected to be formed in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions, within the color flux-tube model. We introduce the gluonic component in the Boltzmann equation, which we solve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gouranga C Nayak , V. Ravishankar

The observation of collective flow phenomena in small collision systems challenges our understanding of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation and evolution. This complexity lies in the initial geometries, which are influenced by both nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 STAR Collaboration