30 research outputs found
Thermal Dimuon Yields at NA60
Dilepton emission rates from a hadronic gas at finite temperature and baryon
density are completely constrained by broken chiral symmetry in a density
expansion. The rates can be expressed in terms of vacuum correlations which are
measured in annihilation, decays and photo-reactions on
nucleons and nuclei. In this paper, the theoretical results are summarized and
the total dimuon yield is calculated by integrating the dimuon rates over the
space-time history of a fireball based on hydrodynamic calculations with CERN
SPS conditions. The resulting dimuon yield is in good agreement with the recent
measurements reported by NA60.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Dissipative corrections to particle spectra and anisotropic flow from a saddle-point approximation to kinetic freeze out
Lang C, Borghini N. Dissipative corrections to particle spectra and anisotropic flow from a saddle-point approximation to kinetic freeze out. The European Physical Journal C. 2014;74(7): 2955.A significant fraction of the changes in momentum distributions induced bydissipative phenomena in the description of the fluid fireball created inultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are actually taking place when the fluidturns into individual particles. We study these corrections in the limit of alow freeze-out temperature of the flowing medium, and show that they mostlyaffect particles with a higher velocity than the fluid. For these, we deriverelations between different flow harmonics, from which the functional form ofthe dissipative corrections could ultimately be reconstructed from experimentaldata
Simulating elliptic flow with viscous hydrodynamics
In this work we simulate a viscous hydrodynamical model of non-central Au-Au
collisions in 2+1 dimensions, assuming longitudinal boost invariance. The model
fluid equations were proposed by \"{O}ttinger and Grmela \cite{OG}. Freezeout
is signaled when the viscous corrections become large relative to the ideal
terms. Then viscous corrections to the transverse momentum and differential
elliptic flow spectra are calculated. When viscous corrections to the thermal
distribution function are not included, the effects of viscosity on elliptic
flow are modest. However, when these corrections are included, the elliptic
flow is strongly modified at large . We also investigate the stability of
the viscous results by comparing the non-ideal components of the stress tensor
() and their influence on the spectrum to the expectation of
the Navier-Stokes equations (\pi^{ij} = -\eta \llangle \partial_i u_j
\rrangle). We argue that when the stress tensor deviates from the
Navier-Stokes form the dissipative corrections to spectra are too large for a
hydrodynamic description to be reliable. For typical RHIC initial conditions
this happens for \eta/s \gsim 0.3.Comment: 34 pages, 40 figures added references, updated figure 1
Azimuthal anisotropy: transition from hydrodynamic flow to jet suppression
Measured 2nd and 4th azimuthal anisotropy coefficients v_{2,4}(N_{part}),
p_T) are scaled with the initial eccentricity \varepsilon_{2,4}(N_{part}) of
the collision zone and studied as a function of the number of participants
N_{part} and the transverse momenta p_T. Scaling violations are observed for
p_T \alt 3 GeV/c, consistent with a dependence of viscous corrections
and a linear increase of the relaxation time with . These empirical
viscous corrections to flow and the thermal distribution function at freeze-out
constrain estimates of the specific viscosity and the freeze-out temperature
for two different models for the initial collision geometry. The apparent
viscous corrections exhibit a sharp maximum for p_T \agt 3 GeV/c, suggesting
a breakdown of the hydrodynamic ansatz and the onset of a change from
flow-driven to suppression-driven anisotropy.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figs; submitted for publicatio
Quark-Gluon Plasma - New Frontiers
As implied by organizers, this talk is not a conference summary but rather an
outline of progress/challenges/``frontiers'' of the theory. Some fundamental
questions addressed are:
Why is sQGP such a good liquid? Do we understand (de)confinement and what do
we know about ``magnetic'' objects creating it? Can we understand the AdS/CFT
predictions, from the gauge theory side? Can they be tested experimentally? Can
AdS/CFT duality help us understand rapid equilibration/entropy production? Can
we work out a complete dynamical ``gravity dual'' to heavy ion collisions?Comment: final talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb.200
Thermal photons in QGP and non-ideal effects
We investigate the thermal photon production-rates using one dimensional
boost-invariant second order relativistic hydrodynamics to find proper time
evolution of the energy density and the temperature. The effect of
bulk-viscosity and non-ideal equation of state are taken into account in a
manner consistent with recent lattice QCD estimates. It is shown that the
\textit{non-ideal} gas equation of state i.e behaviour
of the expanding plasma, which is important near the phase-transition point,
can significantly slow down the hydrodynamic expansion and thereby increase the
photon production-rates. Inclusion of the bulk viscosity may also have similar
effect on the hydrodynamic evolution. However the effect of bulk viscosity is
shown to be significantly lower than the \textit{non-ideal} gas equation of
state. We also analyze the interesting phenomenon of bulk viscosity induced
cavitation making the hydrodynamical description invalid. We include the
viscous corrections to the distribution functions while calculating the photon
spectra. It is shown that ignoring the cavitation phenomenon can lead to
erroneous estimation of the photon flux.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in JHE
The Bulk Channel in Thermal Gauge Theories
We investigate the thermal correlator of the trace of the energy-momentum
tensor in the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. Our goal is to constrain the spectral
function in that channel, whose low-frequency part determines the bulk
viscosity. We focus on the thermal modification of the spectral function,
. Using the operator-product expansion we give
the high-frequency behavior of this difference in terms of thermodynamic
potentials. We take into account the presence of an exact delta function
located at the origin, which had been missed in previous analyses. We then
combine the bulk sum rule and a Monte-Carlo evaluation of the Euclidean
correlator to determine the intervals of frequency where the spectral density
is enhanced or depleted by thermal effects. We find evidence that the thermal
spectral density is non-zero for frequencies below the scalar glueball mass
and is significantly depleted for .Comment: (1+25) pages, 6 figure
Bjorken Flow, Plasma Instabilities, and Thermalization
At asymptotically high energies, thermalization in heavy ion collisions can
be described via weak-coupling QCD. We present a complete treatment of how
thermalization proceeds, at the parametric weak-coupling level. We show that
plasma instabilities dominate the dynamics, from immediately after the
collision until well after the plasma becomes nearly in equilibrium. Initially
they drive the system close to isotropy, but Bjorken expansion and increasing
diluteness makes the system again become more anisotropic. At time \tau ~
\alpha^(-12/5) Q^(-1) the dynamics become dominated by a nearly-thermal bath;
and at time \tau ~ \alpha^(-5/2) Q^(-1)$ the bath comes to dominate the energy
density, completing thermalization. After this time there is a nearly isotropic
and thermal Quark-Gluon Plasma.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Long-Range Rapidity Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions at Strong Coupling from AdS/CFT
We use AdS/CFT correspondence to study two-particle correlations in heavy ion
collisions at strong coupling. Modeling the colliding heavy ions by shock waves
on the gravity side, we observe that at early times after the collision there
are long-range rapidity correlations present in the two-point functions for the
glueball and the energy-momentum tensor operators. We estimate rapidity
correlations at later times by assuming that the evolution of the system is
governed by ideal Bjorken hydrodynamics, and find that glueball correlations in
this state are suppressed at large rapidity intervals, suggesting that
late-time medium dynamics can not "wash out" the long-range rapidity
correlations that were formed at early times. These results may provide an
insight on the nature of the "ridge" correlations observed in heavy ion
collision experiments at RHIC and LHC, and in proton-proton collisions at LHC.Comment: 32 pages, 2 figures; v2: typos corrected, references adde
Transport coefficients and resonances for a meson gas in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We present recent results on a systematic method to calculate transport
coefficients for a meson gas (in particular, we analyze a pion gas) at low
temperatures in the context of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT). Our method is
based on the study of Feynman diagrams taking into account collisions in the
plasma by means of the non-zero particle width. This implies a modification of
the standard ChPT power counting scheme. We discuss the importance of
unitarity, which allows for an accurate high energy description of scattering
amplitudes, generating dynamically the and mesons. Our
results are compatible with analyses of kinetic theory, both in the
non-relativistic very low- regime and near the transition. We show the
behavior with temperature of the electrical and thermal conductivities as well
as of the shear and bulk viscosities. We obtain that bulk viscosity is
negligible against shear viscosity, except near the chiral phase transition
where the conformal anomaly might induce larger bulk effects. Different
asymptotic limits for transport coefficients, large- scaling and some
applications to heavy-ion collisions are studied.Comment: Invited talk given at the international workshop Hot Quarks 2008,
Estes Park, Colorado, USA, August 18-23 2008. Accepted as a regular article
in Eur.Phys.J.C. 18 pages EPJC style, 23 figure