scholarly journals The domain of validity of fluid dynamics and the onset of cavitation in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

Author(s):  
Gabriel Denicol
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1330029 ◽  
Author(s):  
PASI HUOVINEN

Fluid dynamical description of elementary particle collisions has a long history dating back to the works of Landau and Fermi. Nevertheless, it is during the last 10–15 years when fluid dynamics has become the standard tool to describe the evolution of matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, I briefly describe the hydrodynamical models, what we have learned when analyzing the RHIC and LHC data using these models, and what the latest developments and challenges are.


2007 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Satarov ◽  
I. N. Mishustin ◽  
A. V. Merdeev ◽  
H. Stöcker

1997 ◽  
Vol 619 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 391-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brachmann ◽  
A. Dumitru ◽  
J.A. Maruhn ◽  
H. Stöcker ◽  
W. Greiner ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 636 (6) ◽  
pp. 299-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsufumi Hirano ◽  
Ulrich Heinz ◽  
Dmitri Kharzeev ◽  
Roy Lacey ◽  
Yasushi Nara

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Tiwari ◽  
C. P. Singh

The current status of various thermal and statistical descriptions of particle production in the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments is presented in detail. We discuss the formulation of various types of thermal models of a hot and dense hadron gas (HG) and the methods incorporated in the implementing of the interactions between hadrons. It includes our new excluded-volume model which is thermodynamically consistent. The results of the above models together with the experimental results for various ratios of the produced hadrons are compared. We derive some new universal conditions emerging at the chemical freeze-out of HG fireball showing independence with respect to the energy as well as the structure of the nuclei used in the collision. Further, we calculate various transport properties of HG such as the ratio of shear viscosity-to-entropy using our thermal model and compare with the results of other models. We also show the rapidity as well as transverse mass spectra of various hadrons in the thermal HG model in order to outline the presence of flow in the fluid formed in the collision. The purpose of this review article is to organize and summarize the experimental data obtained in various experiments with heavy-ion collisions and then to examine and analyze them using thermal models so that a firm conclusion regarding the formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can be obtained.


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