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We investigate the implications of the general frame approach for conformal Bjorken flow beyond the earlier studies. We show that the power series solution at late times is not unique and is accompanied by an exact solution of the form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 M. Shokri , F. Taghinavaz

The time evolution of the averaged energy momentum tensor as well as its variation with energy density are calculated in a far-from-equilibrium state of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory undergoing a Bjorken expansion. The calculation is carried…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski , Marco Knipfer

We provide a generalized formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics for the far-from-equilibrium noisy medium. As an example, we consider a noisy plasma experiencing Bjorken expansion, for which the leading order evolution is captured by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Zenan Chen , Derek Teaney , Li Yan

Understanding how hydrodynamics emerges rapidly in the medium produced by relativistic heavy-ion collisions remains a key theoretical challenge. While the attractor solution -- manifesting as a non-thermal fixed point during the early…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

We derive the general analytical solution of the viscous hydrodynamic equations for an ultrarelativistic gas of hard spheres undergoing Bjorken expansion, taking into account effects from particle number conservation, and use it to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

In this proceedings contribution, we summarize recent findings concerning the presence of early- and late-time attractors in non-conformal kinetic theory. We study the effects of varying both the initial momentum-space anisotropy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Huda Alalawi , Michael Strickland

There is mounting evidence suggesting that relativistic hydrodynamics becomes relevant for the physics of quark-gluon plasma as the result of nonhydrodynamic modes decaying to an attractor apparent even when the system is far from local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-14 Michał Spaliński

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing one-dimensional Bjorken expansion. We demonstrate that the resulting far-from-equilibrium evolution is insensitive to certain features…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Dekrayat Almaalol , Aleksi Kurkela , Michael Strickland

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing 0+1d Bjorken expansion which goes beyond the energy-momentum tensor to the detailed form of the one-particle distribution function. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Dekrayat Almaalol , Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Michael Strickland

We discuss the non-equilibrium attractors of systems undergoing Gubser flow within kinetic theory by means of nonlinear dynamical systems. We obtain the attractors of anisotropic hydrodynamics, Israel-Stewart (IS) and transient fluid (DNMR)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-27 Nikolás Cruz-Camacho , Mauricio Martinez

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

The non-equilibrium attractors of systems undergoing Gubser flow within relativistic kinetic theory are studied. In doing so we employ well-established methods of nonlinear dynamical systems which rely on finding the fixed points,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Alireza Behtash , C. N. Cruz-Camacho , M. Martinez

A possible resolution of the early thermalisation puzzle is provided by the notion of far-from-equilibrium attractors which arise due to the specific kinematics of heavy-ion collisions. Attractors appear in a wide variety of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-29 Michał Spaliński

We establish a set of equations for moments of the distribution function. In the relaxation time approximations, these moments obey a coupled set of equations that can be truncated order-by-order. Solving the equations of moments, we are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Jean-Paul Blaizot , Li Yan

We examine the capabilities of second-order Israel-Stewart-type hydrodynamics to capture the early-time behaviour of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. We point out that at very early times, the dynamics of the fireball…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Victor E. Ambruş , Sören Schlichting , Clemens Werthmann

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 hydrodynamic attractors paradigm aims to explain the applicability of hydrodynamics after a very short timescale in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC in terms of the emergence of universal behavior across different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Michal P. Heller , Clemens Werthmann

We extend previous studies of the conformal 0+1d kinetic non-equilibrium attractor in relaxation time approximation by enforcing number conservation through the introduction of a dynamical fugacity (chemical potential). We derive two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Michael Strickland , Ubaid Tantary

We investigate the attractor of spin density in relativistic spin hydrodynamics using Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator formalism in the spin probe limit. We derive the (0+1)D Bjorken flow equations and the associated attractor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Qi Zhou , Duan She , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

We investigate whether hydrodynamic attractors are present in simulations of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. We argue that Lagrangian schemes to solve the relativistic viscous fluid equations can be particularly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha