New formulation of leading order anisotropic hydrodynamics

Abstract

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a reorganization of the relativistic hydrodynamics expansion, with the leading order already containing substantial momentum-space anisotropies. The latter are a cause of concern in the traditional viscous hydrodynamics, since large momentum anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are not consistent with the hypothesis of small deviations from an isotropic background, i.e., from the local equilibrium distribution. We discuss the leading order of the expansion, presenting a new formulation for the (1+1)--dimensional case, namely, for the longitudinally boost invariant and cylindrically symmetric flow. This new approach is consistent with the well established framework of Israel and Stewart in the close to equilibrium limit (where we expect viscous hydrodynamics to work well). If we consider the (0+1)--dimensional case, that is, transversally homogeneous and longitudinally boost invariant flow, {the new form of anisotropic hydrodynamics leads to better agreement with known solutions} of the Boltzmann equation than the previous formulations, especially when we consider finite mass particles.

arXiv commentTalk presented at Hot Quarks 2014, September 21-28, 2014, Las Negras, Andalucia, Spain

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