Early collective expansion: Relativistic hydrodynamics and the transport properties of QCD matter
Ulrich W. Heinz (Ohio State University)
TL;DR
This paper discusses how relativistic hydrodynamics models, both ideal and viscous, are used to analyze heavy-ion collision data to determine the transport properties of quark-gluon plasma.
Contribution
It reviews the application of relativistic hydrodynamics to heavy-ion collisions and highlights methods to extract QGP transport coefficients from experimental data.
Findings
Hydrodynamics effectively describes hadron momentum spectra.
Viscous effects are crucial for accurate modeling.
Transport properties of QGP can be inferred from data.
Abstract
Relativistic hydrodynamics for ideal and viscous fluids is discussed as a tool to describe relativistic heavy-ion collisions and to extract transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma from experimentally measured hadron momentum spectra.
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