23–27 May 2016
Centro de Congressos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Alameda Campus
Europe/Lisbon timezone

From high-energy collisions to hydrodynamics in strongly coupled non-conformal theories

25 May 2016, 18:10
20m
Room 02.1 (Centro de Congressos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Alameda Campus)

Room 02.1

Centro de Congressos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Alameda Campus

Speaker

maximilian attems (University of Barcelona)

Description

Ever since fast hydrodynamization has been observed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC, attempts to understand this feature of the very early non-equilbrium stage have been made. We use the gauge/string duality to model the evolution of strongly coupled Quark-Gluon plasma in a non-conformal gauge theory. The non-trivial equation of state and the presence of a time dependent bulk viscosity change the evolution of planar shockwaves. The effect of this non-conformality shows an increase of the relaxation times of the resulting plasma.

Primary author

maximilian attems (University of Barcelona)

Co-authors

Dr Carlos Sopuerta (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai) Mr Daniel Santos (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai) David Mateos (ICREA & U. Barcelona) Jorge Casalderrey Solana (University of Barcelona (ES)) Dr Miguel Zilhao (Universitat de Barcelona) Miquel Triana (Universitat de Barcelona)

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