24 de setembro de 2018 | Altas Energias, Publicações

Net-Baryon Diffusion in Fluid-Dynamic Simulations of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

G. S. Denicol, C. Gale, S. Jeon, A. Monnai, B. Schenke, C.Shen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034916

24/09/2018

Abstract

A hybrid (hydrodynamics + hadronic transport) theoretical framework is assembled to model the bulk dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies accessible in the beam energy scan program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN. The system’s energy-momentum tensor and net-baryon current are evolved according to relativistic hydrodynamics with finite shear viscosity and nonzero net-baryon diffusion. Our hydrodynamic description is matched to a hadronic transport model in the dilute region. With this fully integrated theoretical framework, we present a pilot study of the hadronic chemistry, particle spectra, and anisotropic flow. Phenomenological effects of a nonzero net-baryon current and its diffusion on hadronic observables are presented for the first time. The importance of the hadronic transport phase is also investigated.

10.1103/PhysRevC.98.034916