Attractors for flow observables in 2 + 1D Bjorken flow.

Autor: Ambruş, Victor E., Schlichting, Sören, Werthmann, Clemens
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2024, Vol. 3181 Issue 1, p1-6, 6p
Abstrakt: We examine the capabilities of second-order Israel-Stewart-type hydrodynamics to capture the early-time behaviour of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. We point out that at very early times, the dynamics of the fireball is governed by the local 0+1-D Bjorken flow attractor due to the rapid expansion along the longitudinal direction. Discrepancies between hydrodynamics and kinetic theory in this far-from-equilibrium regime leads to disagreement at the level of late-time observables, such as elliptic flow. We show that rescaling the initial energy-density profile for hydrodynamics accounts for such discrepancies, restoring agreement with kinetic theory for large opacities (small shear viscosity / large system size / high energy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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