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Bulk viscosity, chemical equilibration and flow at RHIC
Thomas Schaefer, Kevin Dusling
We study the effects of bulk viscosity on p_T spectra and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We argue that direct effect of the bulk viscosity on the evolution of the v…
The initial spectrum of fluctuations in the little bang
Kevin Dusling, Francois Gelis, Raju Venugopalan
High parton densities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions suggest a description of these collisions wherein the high energy nuclear wavefunctions and the initial stages of the…
Role of quantum fluctuations in a system with strong fields
Kevin Dusling
In this work we study how quantum fluctuations modify the quantum evolution of an initially classical field theory. We consider a scalar theory coupled to an external source…
Quarkonium above deconfinement as an open quantum system
Clint Young, Kevin Dusling
Quarkonium at temperatures above deconfinement is modeled as an open quantum system, whose dynamics is determined not just by a potential energy and mass, but also by a drag coeffi…
Thermal photons from heavy ion collisions: A spectral function approach
Kevin Dusling, Ismail Zahed
We analyze the photon rates from a hadronic gas in equilibrium using chiral reduction formulas and a density expansion. The chiral reduction is carried to second order in the pion…
Radiative energy loss and v2 spectra for viscous hydrodynamics
Kevin Dusling, Guy Moore, Derek Teaney
This work investigates the first correction to the equilibrium phase space distribution and its effects on spectra and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. We show that the depar…