Resummed relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics

Abstract

In this review, we present the motivation for using relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics to study the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We then highlight the main ingredients of the 3+1D quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics model and present phenomenological comparisons with experimental data at different collision energies. These comparisons show that anisotropic hydrodynamics can describe many bulk observables of the quark-gluon plasma.

14 pages, 5 multipanel figures; Invited review for Symmetry "Relativistic Hydrodynamics: Theory, Methods, and Applications" special issue