Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions
Abstract
We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We discuss how hydrodynamics can be used to extract information on fundamental properties of quantum chromodynamics from experimental data, and review successes and challenges of the hydrodynamic framework.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- April 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1301.5893
- Bibcode:
- 2013IJMPA..2840011G
- Keywords:
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- Heavy-ion collisions;
- relativistic fluid dynamics;
- 25.75.q;
- 12.38.Mh;
- 25.75.Gz;
- 25.75.Ld;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- Particle correlations;
- Collective flow;
- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- 27 pages, 7 figures, invited review for a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics A