Phenomenological implications of asymmetric $AdS_5$ shockwave collision studies for heavy ion physics

Autor: Müller, Berndt, Rabenstein, Andreas, Schäfer, Andreas, Waeber, Sebastian, Yaffe, Laurence G.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. D 101, 076008 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.076008
Popis: This paper discusses possible phenomenological implications for p+A and A+A collisions of the results of recent numerical AdS/CFT calculations examining asymmetric collisions of planar shocks. In view of the extreme Lorentz contraction, we model highly relativistic heavy ion collisions (HICs) as a superposition of collisions between many near-independent transverse "pixels" with differing incident longitudinal momenta. It was found that also for asymmetric collisions the hydrodynamization time is in good approximation a proper time, just like for symmetric collisions, depending on the geometric mean of the longitudinally integrated energy densities of the incident projectiles. For realistic collisions with fluctuations in the initial energy densities, these results imply a substantial increase in the hydrodynamization time for highly asymmetric pixels. However, even in this case the local hydrodynamization time still is significantly smaller than perturbative results for the thermalization time.
Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, footnote added, layout changed to double column
Databáze: arXiv