What happens in hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions when causality is violated?

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Autores principales: Gavassino, Lorenzo, Hirvonen, Henry, Paquet, Jean-Francois, Singh, Mayank, Rocha, Gabriel Soares
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Publicado: 2025
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author Gavassino, Lorenzo
Hirvonen, Henry
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Singh, Mayank
Rocha, Gabriel Soares
author_facet Gavassino, Lorenzo
Hirvonen, Henry
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Singh, Mayank
Rocha, Gabriel Soares
contents We summarize our recent investigations on how causality violations in Israel-Stewart-type relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations can give rise to both analytical and numerical instabilities. The classification of spacetime regions into causal and stable ("good"), acausal but stable ("bad"), and acausal and unstable ("ugly") is reviewed. We compare the predictions of the MUSIC hydrodynamic solver with an analytical solution, and demonstrate how the acausality-driven instabilities develop in a simple one-dimensional scenario.
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spellingShingle What happens in hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions when causality is violated?
Gavassino, Lorenzo
Hirvonen, Henry
Paquet, Jean-Francois
Singh, Mayank
Rocha, Gabriel Soares
Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
We summarize our recent investigations on how causality violations in Israel-Stewart-type relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations can give rise to both analytical and numerical instabilities. The classification of spacetime regions into causal and stable ("good"), acausal but stable ("bad"), and acausal and unstable ("ugly") is reviewed. We compare the predictions of the MUSIC hydrodynamic solver with an analytical solution, and demonstrate how the acausality-driven instabilities develop in a simple one-dimensional scenario.
title What happens in hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions when causality is violated?
topic Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07946