Towards a fluid-dynamic description of an entire heavy-ion collision: from the colliding nuclei to the quark-gluon plasma phase
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| author | Kirchner, Andreas Capellino, Federica Grossi, Eduardo Floerchinger, Stefan |
| author_facet | Kirchner, Andreas Capellino, Federica Grossi, Eduardo Floerchinger, Stefan |
| contents | The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves far-from-equilibrium dynamics, it is not excluded that a fluid theory of second order can reasonably well describe its soft features. Here we explore this possibility and discuss how the state before the collision can be described in that setup, examine the required fluid-dynamical equations of motion and study the resulting entropy production. While we do here only first steps, we outline a larger program, which could lead to a dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions where the only uncertainty lies in the thermodynamic and transport properties of quantum chromodynamics. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards a fluid-dynamic description of an entire heavy-ion collision: from the colliding nuclei to the quark-gluon plasma phase Kirchner, Andreas Capellino, Federica Grossi, Eduardo Floerchinger, Stefan Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology The fluid-dynamical modeling of a nuclear collision at high energy usually starts shortly after the collision. A major source of uncertainty comes from the detailed modeling of the initial state. While the collision itself likely involves far-from-equilibrium dynamics, it is not excluded that a fluid theory of second order can reasonably well describe its soft features. Here we explore this possibility and discuss how the state before the collision can be described in that setup, examine the required fluid-dynamical equations of motion and study the resulting entropy production. While we do here only first steps, we outline a larger program, which could lead to a dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions where the only uncertainty lies in the thermodynamic and transport properties of quantum chromodynamics. |
| title | Towards a fluid-dynamic description of an entire heavy-ion collision: from the colliding nuclei to the quark-gluon plasma phase |
| topic | Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17651 |