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In the framework of the Mueller-Israel-Stewart theory of dissipative fluid dynamics, we have studied the space-time evolution of a QGP fluid. For simplicity, we have considered shear viscosity only and neglected bulk viscosity and heat…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 A. K. Chaudhuri , U. Heinz

We assess transport properties of heavy quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) using static heavy-quark (HQ) potentials from lattice-QCD calculations in a Brueckner many-body T-matrix approach to evaluate elastic heavy-quark-light-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 H. van Hees , M. Mannarelli , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

In the established paradigm of jet quenching in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jets from initial hard parton scatterings are suppressed due to their interaction with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as they traverse the hot medium, serving…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Peng Jing , Yichao Dang , Yang He , Shanshan Cao , Li Yi , Xin-Nian Wang

By finding rare (but not exponentially rare) large-angle deflections of partons within a jet produced in a heavy ion collision, or of such a jet itself, experimentalists can find the weakly coupled short-distance quark and gluon particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Francesco D'Eramo , Krishna Rajagopal , Yi Yin

Some of the most important probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of jets are modified by passage through QGP. We model an ensemble of back-to-back dijets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jasmine Brewer , Krishna Rajagopal , Andrey Sadofyev , Wilke van der Schee

A new thermodynamic state function is introduced to describe the thermodynamics relevant for the mean transverse momentum fluctuations of charged particles in heavy-ion collisions, which allows us to compute the temperature fluctuations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Jinhui Chen , Wei-jie Fu , Shi Yin , Chunjian Zhang

We study the effects of initial state fluctuations on the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks inside a quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The evolution of heavy quarks in QGP matter is described utilizing a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-25 Shanshan Cao , Yajing Huang , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass

The large proper-time behaviour of expanding boost-invariant fluids has provided many crucial insights into quark-gluon plasma dynamics. Here we formulate and explore the late-time behaviour of nonequilibrium dynamics at the level of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Michal P. Heller , Alexandre Serantes , Michał Spaliński , Viktor Svensson , Benjamin Withers

"Attractor" solutions for the pre-hydrodynamic, far-from-equilibrium, evolution of the matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions have emerged as crucial descriptors of the rapid hydrodynamization of quark-gluon plasma (QGP).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Rachel Steinhorst

In this study, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of an ideal Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at a vanishing chemical potential, under the influence of quantum gravitational effects, specifically incorporating the Linear-Quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Djamel Eddine Zenkhri , Abdelhakim Benkrane

The study of transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter got impetus after the discovery of perfect fluid ever created at ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision experiments. In this article, we have calculated one such coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-14 P. K. Srivastava , Lata Thakur , Binoy Krishna Patra

We study the interaction of leading jet partons in a strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) medium based on the effective dynamical quasi-particle model (DQPM). The DQPM describes the non-perturbative nature of the sQGP at finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Olga Soloveva , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

The strong suppression of bottomonia production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a smoking gun for the creation of a deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this proceedings contribution, I review recent work that aims to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Michael Strickland

We investigate the onset of wave-breaking in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions at both RHIC and the LHC. A nonlinear longitudinal color field is coupled to a three-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic background…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Biswarup Paul

Whether, how, and to what extent solutions of Bjorken-expanding systems become insensitive to aspects of their initial conditions is of importance for heavy-ion collisions. Here we study 1+1D and phenomenologically relevant boost-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Aleksi Kurkela , Wilke van der Schee , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

Non-Abelian plasma instabilities have been proposed as a possible explanation for fast isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We study the real-time evolution of these instabilities in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anton Rebhan , Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland

This review cover our current understanding of strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP), especially theoretical progress in (i) explaining the RHIC data by hydrodynamics, (ii) describing lattice data using electric-magnetic duality; (iii)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Edward Shuryak

As a result of multiple mini-jet production, initial conditions of the QCD plasma formed in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions may be inhomogeneous, with large fluctuations of the local energy density (hot spots), and turbulent, with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 M. Gyulassy , D. H. Rischke , B. Zhang

The bulk of the hot and dense matter created at RHIC behaves like an almost ideal fluid. I present the evidence for this and also discuss what we can learn about the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from the gradual…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich W. Heinz

We present a numerical code modeling the evolution of the medium formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions, ECHO-QGP. The code solves relativistic hydrodynamics in $(3+1)-$D, with dissipative terms included within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Valentina Rolando , Gabriele Inghirami , Andrea Beraudo , Luca Del Zanna , Francesco Becattini , Vinod Chandra , Arturo De Pace , Marzia Nardi