Hydrodynamic Modeling for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in hydrodynamic modeling of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC, focusing on initial state fluctuations, viscosity extraction, and flow in p+Pb collisions.

Contribution

It summarizes recent progress in hydrodynamic simulations, including event-by-event modeling, viscosity measurement techniques, and flow analysis in high-energy nuclear collisions.

Findings

Initial state fluctuations significantly affect flow observables.

Shear viscosity of QGP can be extracted from flow data.

Hydrodynamics describes flow phenomena in p+Pb collisions.

Abstract

In this article, we briefly review recent progress on hydrodynamic modeling and its implementations to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The related topics include: 1) initial state fluctuations, final state correlations and event-by-event hydrodynamics, 2) extracting the QGP shear viscosity from flow data, 3) flow and hydrodynamics in 5.02 A TeV p+Pb collisions.