Perturbative thermal QCD: formalism and applications

J Ghiglieri, A Kurkela, M Strickland, A Vuorinen - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss the current status and future prospects of perturbation
theory as a means of studying the equilibrium thermodynamic and near-equilibrium …

Relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics

M Alqahtani, M Nopoush, M Strickland - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we review recent progress in relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics. We begin
with a pedagogical introduction to the topic which takes into account the advances in our …

Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter

D Everett, W Ke, JF Paquet, G Vujanovic, SA Bass… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We study the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma with a multistage model
of heavy-ion collisions that combines the TR ENTo initial condition ansatz, free-streaming …

Isotropization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled heavy-ion collisions

A Kurkela, Y Zhu - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We numerically solve the (2+ 1)-dimensional effective kinetic theory of weak coupling QCD
under longitudinal expansion, relevant for early stages of heavy-ion collisions. We find …

Some features of the glasma

T Lappi, L McLerran - Nuclear Physics A, 2006 - Elsevier
We discuss high energy hadronic collisions within the theory of the color glass condensate.
We point out that the initial electric and magnetic fields produced in such collisions are …

Turbulent thermalization process in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

J Berges, K Boguslavski, S Schlichting, R Venugopalan - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The nonequilibrium evolution of heavy-ion collisions is studied in the limit of weak coupling
at very high energy employing lattice simulations of the classical Yang-Mills equations …

Anisotropic nonequilibrium hydrodynamic attractor

M Strickland, J Noronha, GS Denicol - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We determine the dynamical attractors associated with anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro)
and the DNMR equations for a 0+ 1 d conformal system using kinetic theory in the relaxation …

Three-loop HTLpt thermodynamics at finite temperature and chemical potential

N Haque, A Bandyopadhyay, JO Andersen… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Springer
A bstract We calculate the three-loop thermodynamic potential of QCD at finite temperature
and chemical potential (s) using the hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory (HTLpt) …

Thermal bottomonium suppression at RHIC and LHC

M Strickland, D Bazow - Nuclear Physics A, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider the suppression of bottomonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy ion
collisions. We compute the suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse …

Anisotropic hydrodynamics: three lectures

M Strickland - arxiv preprint arxiv:1410.5786, 2014 - arxiv.org
Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a non-perturbative reorganization of relativistic hydrodynamics
that takes into account the large momentum-space anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic …