HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
CHARLES GALEDepartment of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8, CanadaSANGYONG JEONDepartment of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8, CanadaBJÖRN SCHENKEPhysics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
2013en
ABI
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.
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