May 22 – 28, 2011
Centre Bonlieu
Europe/Zurich timezone

Relativistic theory of hydrodynamic fluctuations

May 23, 2011, 7:10 PM
20m
Rotonde de l'Europe (Imperial Palace)

Rotonde de l'Europe

Imperial Palace

Parallel Correlations and fluctuations Correlations and fluctuations

Speaker

Prof. Joseph Kapusta (University of Minnesota)

Description

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been applied to a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In the context of high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations due to the finite size and finite particle content even if the initial conditions are fixed. We develop the theory of relativistic fluctuations, and apply it to a 1+1 dimensional boost invariant model. In analogy to the cosmic microwave background radiation, fluctuations might provide information on the equation of state, including a possible critical point, and on the transport coefficients.

Author

Prof. Joseph Kapusta (University of Minnesota)

Co-author

Prof. Misha Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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