Real relativistic fluids in heavy ion collisions
arXiv:1310.0841
Abstract
The theory of real relativistic fluids is in the rather unique situation that there is a natural relativistic extension of the nonrelativistic theory, but it is physically untenable. On the other hand, mounting evidence that matter created in relativistic heavy ion collisions behaves as a relativistic fluid with small but finite viscosity has given the quest for an alternative a definite goal. We shall review different approaches to relativistic real fluids, their link to relativistic kinetic theory, and their application to the analysis of heavy ion collisions
Talks given at the Summer School on Geometric, Algebraic and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva (Colombia), July 2013