QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

New theories of relativistic hydrodynamics in the LHC era

W Florkowski, MP Heller… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The success of relativistic hydrodynamics as an essential part of the phenomenological
description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC has motivated a significant body of …

[LIVRE][B] Gauge/string duality, hot QCD and heavy ion collisions

J Casalderrey-Solana, H Liu, D Mateos, K Rajagopal… - 2014 - library.oapen.org
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent
universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal …

Numerical solution of gravitational dynamics in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

PM Chesler, LG Yaffe - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract A variety of gravitational dynamics problems in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS)
spacetime are amenable to efficient numerical solution using a common approach involving …

Early-and late-time behavior of attractors in heavy-ion collisions

A Kurkela, W van der Schee, UA Wiedemann, B Wu - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Whether, how, and to what extent solutions of Bjorken-expanding systems become
insensitive to aspects of their initial conditions is of importance for heavy-ion collisions. Here …

Numerical methods for finding stationary gravitational solutions

ÓJC Dias, JE Santos, B Way - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The wide applications of higher dimensional gravity and gauge/gravity duality have fuelled
the search for new stationary solutions of the Einstein equation (possibly coupled to matter) …

Characteristics of thermalization of boost-invariant plasma from holography

MP Heller, RA Janik, P Witaszczyk - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We report on the approach toward the hydrodynamic regime of boost-invariant N= 4 super
Yang-Mills plasma at strong coupling starting from various far-from-equilibrium states at τ= 0 …

Hydrodynamic attractors in heavy ion collisions: a review

A Soloviev - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
A review of the recent progress of relativistic hydrodynamic attractors is presented, with a
focus on applications in heavy ion collisions and the quark gluon plasma. Pedagogical …

Strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions

E Shuryak - Reviews of modern physics, 2017 - APS
A decade ago, a brief summary of the field of the relativistic heavy ion physics could be
formulated as the discovery of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, sQGP for short, a near …