Thursday, July 11, 2013

1307.2539 (Wilke van der Schee et al.)

A fully dynamical simulation of central nuclear collisions    [PDF]

Wilke van der Schee, Paul Romatschke, Scott Pratt
We present a fully dynamical simulation of central nuclear collisions around mid-rapidity at LHC energies. Unlike previous treatments, we simulate all phases of the collision, including the equilibration of the system. For the simulation, we use numerical relativity solutions to AdS/CFT for the pre-equilibrium stage, viscous hydrodynamics for the plasma equilibrium stage and kinetic theory for the low density hadronic stage. Our pre-equilibrium stage provides initial conditions for hydrodynamics and our results are insensitive to the AdS/hydro switching time. The resulting light particle spectra reproduce the measurements from the ALICE experiment at all transverse momenta.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2539

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