1208.2626 (Michael Strickland)

Highly anisotropic dissipative hydrodynamics    [PDF]

Michael Strickland

The quark gluon plasma generated in ultrarelativistic relativistic heavy ion collisions may possess sizable momentum-space anisotropies that cause the longitudinal and transverse pressures in the local rest frame to be significantly different. We review recent attempts to derive a dynamical framework that can reliably describe systems that possess a high degree of momentum-space anisotropy. The dynamical framework that has been developed can describe the evolution of the quark gluon plasma ranging from the longitudinal free-streaming limit to the ideal hydrodynamical limit.

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