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Initial state of Heavy-Ion Collisions: Isotropization and thermalization
I discuss how local thermal equilibrium and hydrodynamical flow are reached
in heavy-ion collisions in the weak coupling limit.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figs, proceedings of the Quark Matter 201
Isotropization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled heavy-ion collisions
We numerically solve 2+1D effective kinetic theory of weak coupling QCD under
longitudinal expansion relevant for early stages of heavy-ion collisions. We
find agreement with viscous hydrodynamics and classical Yang-Mills simulations
in the regimes where they are applicable. By choosing initial conditions that
are motivated by color-glass-condensate framework we find that for Q=2GeV and
=0.3 the system is approximately described by viscous hydrodynamics
well before fm/c.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Shortened for PRL, figs. 1 and 2 modifie
Analytic structure of nonhydrodynamic modes in kinetic theory
How physical systems approach hydrodynamic behavior is governed by the decay
of nonhydrodynamic modes. Here, we start from a relativistic kinetic theory
that encodes relaxation mechanisms governed by different timescales thus
sharing essential features of generic weakly coupled nonequilib- rium systems.
By analytically solving for the retarded correlation functions, we clarify how
branch cuts arise generically from noncollective particle excitations, how they
interface with poles arising from collective hydrodynamic excitations, and to
what extent the appearance of poles remains at best an ambiguous signature for
the onset of fluid dynamic behavior. We observe that processes that are slower
than the hydrodynamic relaxation timescale can make a system that has already
reached fluid dynamic behavior to fall out of hydrodynamics at late times. In
addition, the analytical control over this model allows us to explicitly
demonstrate how the hydrodynamic gradient expansion of the correlation
functions can be Borel resummed such that the full nonperturbative information
is recovered using perturbative input only.Comment: 21 pages, 15 fig
Picturing perturbative parton cascades in QCD matter
Based on parametric reasoning, we provide a simple dynamical picture of how a
perturbative parton cascade, in interaction with a QCD medium, fills phase
space as a function of time.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
UV Cascade in Classical Yang-Mills Theory
We study the real-time behavior of classical Yang-Mills theory under initial
conditions with nonperturbatively large, infrared field amplitudes. Our lattice
study confirms the cascade of energy towards higher momenta and lower
occupancy, which occurs via a scaling solution . Above a characteristic scale p_{max}, f falls
exponentially; below p_{max}, . We find no evidence for
different infrared exponents or for infrared occupancies in excess of those
described by this scaling solution. We also investigate what the fate of large
occupancies would be, both in the electric and the magnetic sector.Comment: 24 pages with 13 color figure
Neutron star structure from QCD
In this review article, we argue that our current understanding of the
thermodynamic properties of cold QCD matter, originating from first principles
calculations at high and low densities, can be used to efficiently constrain
the macroscopic properties of neutron stars. In particular, we demonstrate that
combining state-of-the-art results from Chiral Effective Theory and
perturbative QCD with the current bounds on neutron star masses, the Equation
of State of neutron star matter can be obtained to an accuracy better than 30%
at all densities.Comment: Invited contribution to the EPJA Topical Issue "Exotic Matter in
Neutron Stars"; 10 pages, 13 figure
Flow in AA and pA as an interplay of fluid-like and non-fluid like excitations
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 kinetic theory model that encompasses fluid dynamics but
contains also particle-like excitations in a boost invariant setting with no
symmetries in the transverse plane and with large initial momentum asymmetries.
We determine the relative weight of fluid dynamical and particle like
excitations as a function of system size and energy density by comparing
kinetic transport to results from the 0th, 1st and 2nd order gradient expansion
of viscous fluid dynamics. We then confront this kinetic theory with data on
azimuthal flow coefficients over a wide centrality range in PbPb collisions at
the LHC, in AuAu collisions at RHIC, and in pPb collisions at the LHC. Evidence
is presented that non-hydrodynamic excitations make the dominant contribution
to collective flow signals in pPb collisions at the LHC and contribute
significantly to flow in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions, while
fluid-like excitations dominate collectivity in central nucleus-nucleus
collisions at collider energies.Comment: 28 pages, 16 figure
Dimensional reduction and the phase diagram of 5d Yang-Mills theory
We present a non-perturbative study of the phase diagram of 5d SU(2)
Yang-Mills theory with one compact extra dimension on the lattice. Assuming at
least a modest scale separation between the cutoff and the compactification
scales leads to an exponential separation between the compactification scale
and the four-dimensional correlation length. While we demonstrate that it is
not possible to take a full five-dimensional continuum limit, this dynamical
generation of scale hierarchy opens up the possibility for us to make limited,
but non-perturbative, predictions about continuum theories whose low-energy
sector is described by an effective 5d Yang-Mills theory.Comment: 7 pages. Presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice
Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, Chin
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