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We predict the transverse momentum (pT) dependence of elliptic flow of thermal photons for Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We model the system hydrodynamically, assuming formation of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Rupa Chatterjee , Evan S. Frodermann , Ulrich W. Heinz , Dinesh K. Srivastava

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 perform viscous hydrodynamic calculations in 2+1 dimensions to investigate the influence of bulk viscosity on the viscous suppression of elliptic flow in non-central heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. Bulk and shear viscous effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Huichao Song , Ulrich W Heinz

We have developed a next-generation hybrid event-by-event three-fluid hydrodynamic model, suitable for simulations of heavy-ion collisions in the energy range from few up to tens of GeV per colliding NN pair. At such energies the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Jakub Cimerman , Iurii Karpenko , Boris Tomasik , Pasi Huovinen

Deuterons with different polarization states have distinct shapes for their wavefunctions. This offers a unique opportunity to experimentally control the initial-state collision geometry with the polarization of the light-ion targets in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

Current status of dynamical modeling of relativistic heavy ion collisions and hydrodynamic description of the quark gluon plasma is reported. We find the hadronic rescattering effect plays an important role in interpretation of mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Tetsufumi Hirano

A detailed description of the temporal evolution of the thermodynamic fields in heavy ion collisions is presented within a hydrodynamic framework. Particular attention is devoted to the evolution of the collective flow fields and their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter F. Kolb

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, gravitational waves are generated by the collisions of bubble walls and by the bulk motions caused in the fluid. A sizeable signal may result from fast-moving walls. In this work we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

In high energy heavy-ion collisions, the final anisotropic flow coefficients and their corresponding event-plane correlations are considered as the medium evolutional response to the initial geometrical eccentricities and their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Jing Yang , Yong Zhang

A model for energy, pressure and flow velocity distributions at the beginning of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented, which can be used as an initial condition for hydrodynamic calculations. Our model takes into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. K. Magas , L. P. Csernai , D. D. Strottman

We develop a combined hydro-kinetic approach which incorporates a hydrodynamical expansion of the systems formed in \textit{A}+\textit{A} collisions and their dynamical decoupling described by escape probabilities. The method corresponds to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Akkelin , Y. Hama , Iu. A. Karpenko , Yu. M. Sinyukov

A Hydro+Cascade model has been used to describe radial and elliptic flow at the SPS and successfully predicted the radial and elliptic flow measured by the both STAR and PHENIX collaborations . Furthermore, a combined description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Teaney , J. Lauret , E. V. Shuryak

We apply the hydrodynamic model for the dynamics of matter created in p-Pb collisions at 4.4TeV and d-Pb collisions at 3.11TeV. The fluctuating initial conditions are calculated in the Glauber Monte-Carlo model for several centrality…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-01 Piotr Bozek

Time evolution of a "little bang" created in heavy ion collisions can be divided into two phases, the pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic. At what moment the evolution becomes hydrodynamic and is there any universality in the hydrodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Lublinsky , E. Shuryak

We compute the time evolution of elliptic flow in non-central relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using a (2+1)-dimensional code with longitudinal boost-invariance to simulate viscous fluid dynamics in the causal Israel-Stewart formulation.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Huichao Song , Ulrich W. Heinz

Elliptical energy flow patterns in non-central Au(11.7AGeV) on Au reactions have been studied employing the RQMD model. The strength of these azimuthal asymmetries is calculated comparing the results in two different modes of RQMD (mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Sorge

We study the dynamical appearance of scaling solutions in relativistic hydrodynamics. The phase transition effects are included through the temperature dependent sound velocity. If a pre-equilibrium transverse flow is included in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Chojnacki

A very early start up time of the hydrodynamic evolution is needed in order to reproduce observations from relativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments. At such early times the systems is still not locally equilibrated. Another source of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-24 P. Bozek

We study the effect of anisotropic escape mechanism on elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We use Glauber model to generate initial conditions and ignore hydrodynamic expansion in the transverse direction. We employ…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Amaresh Jaiswal , Partha Pratim Bhaduri

Within the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) model, by reverse tracing nucleons that are finally emitted at mid-rapidity (|$y_0$| < 0.1) in the entire reaction process, the time evolution of elliptic flow ($v_2$) of these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Bo Gao , Yongjia Wang , Zepeng Gao , Qingfeng Li