Non abelian hydrodynamics and heavy ion collisions
arXiv:1311.1845 · doi:10.1063/1.4862452
Abstract
The goal of the relativistic heavy ion collisions (RHIC) program is to create a state of matter where color degrees of freedom are deconfined. The dynamics of matter in this state, in spite of the complexities of quantum chromodynamics, is largely determined by the conservation laws of energy momentum and color currents. Therefore it is possible to describe its main features in hydrodynamic terms, the very short color neutralization time notwithstanding. In this lecture we shall give a simple derivation of the hydrodynamics of a color charged fluid, by generalizing the usual derivation of hydrodynamics from kinetic theory to the non abelian case.
Talk given at the 5th Leopoldo GarcÃa-ColÃn Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics, Mexico City, September 9 - 13, 2013