Speaker
Dr
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay
(North Carolina State University)
Description
We propose a new `particlization’ prescription for the conversion of hydrodynamic degrees of freedom to hadrons at the decoupling stage of heavy-ion collisions. Unlike existing particlization schemes, this method uses only macroscopic information provided by the hydrodynamic output and follows directly from the connection between information theory and statistical mechanics. We further use this approach to construct a far-from-equilibrium macroscopic theory that smoothly connects between the free-streaming and hydrodynamic regimes of heavy-ion collisions.
Primary authors
Dr
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay
(North Carolina State University)
Dr
Derek Everett
Prof.
Ulrich Heinz
(The Ohio State University)
