Early Collective Expansion: Relativistic Hydrodynamics and the Transport Properties of QCD Matter

2009/01/28 by Ulrich Heinz, Ulrich W. Heinz
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01539-7_9

published as in "Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics", Landolt-Boernstein New Series, Vol. I/23, edited by R. Stock (Springer Verlag, New York, 2010), Chap. 5 · Review article, 54 pages, 25 figures

arxiv created 2009/01/28 · openalex publication_date 2010/01/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

Relativistic hydrodynamics for ideal and viscous fluids is discussed as a tool to describe relativistic heavy-ion collisions and to extract transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma from experimentally measured hadron momentum spectra.

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