Dissipative hydrodynamic effects on the quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon density
arXiv:1301.2713 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/432/1/012011
Abstract
The quark-gluon plasma behaves as a relativistic viscous fluid in high-energy heavy ion collisions. I develop a causal dissipative hydrodynamic model at finite baryon density for RHIC and LHC to estimate the net baryon rapidity distribution. The net baryon number is found to be carried to forward rapidity by the flow, effectively enhancing the transparency of the collisions. This suggests that the energy available for the production of a hot medium could be larger than that naively implied from experimental data. Also the distribution can be sensitive to baryon dissipation as much as to shear and bulk viscosity.
5 pages, 4 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Extreme QCD 2012, August 21-23, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
References in corpus (9)
- Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
- The QCD equation of state with dynamical quarks
- Elliptic and triangular flow in event-by-event (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamics
- Fluctuations of conserved charges at finite temperature from lattice QCD
- Effects of fluctuations on the initial eccentricity from the Color Glass Condensate in heavy ion collisions
- Eccentricity fluctuations from the Color Glass Condensate at RHIC and LHC
- Thermal right-handed neutrino production rate in the non-relativistic regime
- Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamic Equations at the Second Order for Multi-Component Systems with Multiple Conserved Currents
- Dissipative Hydrodynamic Effects on Baryon Stopping