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Chemical equilibration of QGP in hadronic collisions
Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas
We performed state-of-the-art QCD effective kinetic theory simulations of chemically equilibrating QGP in longitudinally expanding systems. We find that chemical equilibration take…
What attracts to attractors?
Aleksi Kurkela, Wilke van der Schee, Urs Achim Wiedemann +1
Whether, how, and to what extent solutions of Bjorken-expanding systems become insensitive to aspects of their initial conditions is of importance for heavy-ion collisions. Here we…
Dynamical Friction in Interacting Relativistic Systems
Andrey Katz, Aleksi Kurkela, Alexander Soloviev
We study dynamical friction in interacting relativistic systems with arbitrary mean free paths and medium constituent masses. Our novel framework recovers the known limits of ideal…
Flow in AA and pA as an interplay of fluid-like and non-fluid like excitations
Aleksi Kurkela, Urs Achim Wiedemann, Bin Wu
To study the microscopic structure of quark-gluon plasma, data from hadronic collisions must be confronted with models that go beyond fluid dynamics. Here, we study a simple kineti…
Constraining the properties of neutron-star matter with observations
Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela +2
In this conference-proceedings contribution, we review recent advances in placing model-independent constraints on the properties of cold and dense QCD matter inside neutron stars.…
Evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars
Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela +2
The theory governing the strong nuclear force, Quantum Chromodynamics, predicts that at sufficiently high energy densities hadronic nuclear matter undergoes a deconfinement transit…