Hydrodynamic models for heavy ion collisions, and beyond

  • A generic property of a first-order phase transition in equilibrium, and in the limit of large entropy per unit of conserved charge, is the smallness of the isentropic speed of sound in the mixed phase . A specific prediction is that this should lead to a non-isotropic momentum distribution of nucleons in the reaction plane (for energies < 40A GeV in our model calculation). On the other hand, we show that from present effective theories for low-energy QCD one does not expect the thermal transition rate between various states of the effective potential to be much larger than the expansion rate, questioning the applicability of the idealized Maxwell/Gibbs construction. Experimental data could soon provide essential information on the dynamics of the phase transition.

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Author:Adrian Bogdan DumitruORCiDGND, Jörg BrachmannGND, Eduardo Souza FragaORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND, Andrew D. Jackson, Jonathan T. Lenaghan, Ove Scavenius, Horst StöckerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21932
Parent Title (German):Presented at 241st WE-Heraeus Seminar: Symposium on Fundamental Issues in Elementary Matter: In Honor and Memory of Michael Danos, Bad Honnef, Germany, 25-29 Sep 2000
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2005
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/11/22
Tag:hydrodynamisches Modell; schwere Ion Kollision
heavy ion collision; hydrodynamic model
Source:Heavy Ion Phys.14:121-131,2001. [nucl-th/0010107] , Presented at 241st WE-Heraeus Seminar: Symposium on Fundamental Issues in Elementary Matter: In Honor and Memory of Michael Danos, Bad Honnef, Germany, 25-29 Sep 2000
HeBIS-PPN:225908859
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht