Speaker
Clint Young
(University of Minnesota)
Description
The thermal fluctuations inherent in viscous hydrodynamics are significant when examining a fluid either at small length scales or near a critical point. Both of these conditions can be met in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These fluctuations have small but non-vanishing effects on observables at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Because the amplitudes of the fluctuations are related to viscosity through the fluctuation-dissipation relation, the effects of fluctuations on observables may lead to an independent measurement of transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma. Numerical simulation of the propagation of thermal noise is necessary even in the linearized limit, and can be used to examine the effect of thermal fluctuations on observables.
Author
Clint Young
(University of Minnesota)
Co-author
Joseph Kapusta
(University of Minnesota)
