Speaker
Dr
Yi Yin
(MIT)
Description
Experimentally locating the QCD critical point is one of the important scientific goal for the relativistic heavy-ion collision program, with potential connections to a plethora of deep questions on the phase diagram of nuclear matter. I will discuss the qualitative features of offequilibrium effects for the fireballs passing close to the critical point based on Kibble-Zurek dynamics. I will then present a novel theoretical framework on the quantitative description of hydrodynamic fluctuations near the critical point, namely “hydro+”. I will show the first results on the numerical simulations of “hydro+”, and discuss the interesting connection of “hydro+” to other approaches of fluctuating hydrodynamics.
