Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamic Description of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

• Main Author: Monnai, Akihiko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Thermodynamics.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Nuclear physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

This thesis presents theoretical and numerical studies on phenomenological description of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP), a many-body system of elementary particles.   The author formulates a causal theory of hydrodynamics for systems with net charges from the law of increasing entropy and a momentum...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
• Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics with Conserved Charges
• Viscous Hydrodynamic Model and the Color Glass Condensate
• Dissipative Hydrodynamic Model and Baryon Stopping
• Summary and Conclusion
• Appendices.