Relativistic diffusion and heavy-ion collisions

Details Relativistic diffusion and heavy-ion collisions Relativistic diffusion and heavy-ion collisions

2009-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/0901.4677v2

Phys.Rev.C79:064901,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.79.064901

We study first and second order theories of relativistic diffusion coupled to hydrodynamics under the approximation, valid at mid-rapidity in the RHIC and LHC, that conserved number densities are much smaller than the entropy density. We identify experimentally accessible quantities of interest, and show that the first and second order theories may lead to radically different evolutions of these quantities. In the first order theory the memory of the initial state is almost completely washed out, whereas in the second order theory it is possible that freezeout occurs at a time when transient dynamics is still on, and the memory of the initial state remains. There are observational consequences which we touch upon. In the first order theory, and for initial conditions when the second order theory mimics the first order, one may be able to put a bound on the diffusion constant.

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