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 …

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 …

Holographic modeling of nuclear matter and neutron stars

M Järvinen - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
I review holographic models for (dense and cold) nuclear matter, neutron stars, and their
mergers. I start by a brief general discussion on current knowledge of cold QCD matter and …

Paths to equilibrium in non-conformal collisions

M Attems, J Casalderrey-Solana, D Mateos… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We extend our previous analysis of holographic heavy ion collisions in non-
conformal theories. We provide a detailed description of our numerical code. We study …

Holographic heavy ion collisions with baryon charge

J Casalderrey-Solana, D Mateos… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We numerically simulate collisions of charged shockwaves in Einstein-Maxwell
theory in anti-de Sitter space as a toy model of heavy ion collisions with non-zero baryon …

Hydrodynamic attractor of a hybrid viscous fluid in Bjorken flow

T Mitra, S Mondkar, A Mukhopadhyay, A Rebhan… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
The nonequilibrium evolution in a boost-invariant Bjorken flow of a hybrid viscous fluid
model containing two interacting components with different viscosities, such that they …

Statistics of thermalization in Bjorken Flow

J Jankowski, G Plewa, M Spaliński - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract The apparent early thermalization of quark-gluon plasma produced at RHIC and
LHC has motivated a number of studies of strongly coupled\(\mathcal {N}= 4\) …

Quasinormal modes of a semi-holographic black brane and thermalization

S Mondkar, A Mukhopadhyay, A Rebhan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the quasinormal modes and non-linear dynamics of a simplified model of
semi-holography, which consistently integrates mutually interacting perturbative and …

Time evolution of a toy semiholographic glasma

C Ecker, A Mukhopadhyay, F Preis, A Rebhan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We extend our previous study of a toy model for coupling classical Yang-Mills
equations for describing overoccupied gluons at the saturation scale with a strongly coupled …