Heavy Ion Collisions: The Big Picture and the Big Questions
- W. Busza, K. Rajagopal, W. Schee
- PhysicsAnnual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- 13 February 2018
Heavy ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably small viscosity. We give an accessible introduction to how to study this smallest and hottest droplet of…
Holographic isotropization linearized
- M. Heller, D. Mateos, W. Schee, Miquel Triana
- Physics
- 18 April 2013
A bstractThe holographic isotropization of a highly anisotropic, homogeneous, strongly coupled, non-Abelian plasma was simplified in ref. [1] by linearizing Einstein’s equations around the final,…
New dynamical instability in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetime
- U. Gursoy, Aron Jansen, W. Schee
- Physics, Mathematics
- 24 March 2016
We present fully dynamical solutions to Einstein-scalar theory in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetime with a scalar potential containing particularly rich physics. Depending on one parameter in…
Weak and strong coupling equilibration in nonabelian gauge theories
- L. Keegan, A. Kurkela, P. Romatschke, W. Schee, Yan Zhu
- Physics
- 16 December 2015
A bstractWe present a direct comparison studying equilibration through kinetic theory at weak coupling and through holography at strong coupling in the same set-up. The set-up starts with a…
Gravitational collisions and the quark-gluon plasma
- W. Schee
- Physics
- 2 July 2014
This thesis addresses the thermalisation of heavy-ion collisions within the context of the AdS/CFT duality. The first part clarifies the numerical set-up and studies the relaxation of…
Holographic thermalization with radial flow
- W. Schee
- Physics
- 9 November 2012
Recently, a lot of effort has been put into describing the thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma using the gauge/gravity duality. In this context we here present a full numerical solution of the…
Absence of a local rest frame in far from equilibrium quantum matter
- P. Arnold, P. Romatschke, W. Schee
- Physics
- 11 August 2014
A bstractIn a collision of strongly coupled quantum matter we find that the dynamics of the collision produces regions where a local rest frame cannot be defined because the energy-momentum tensor…
Evolution of the mean jet shape and dijet asymmetry distribution of an ensemble of holographic jets in strongly coupled plasma
- J. Brewer, K. Rajagopal, A. Sadofyev, W. Schee
- Physics
- 9 October 2017
A bstractSome of the most important experimentally accessible probes of the quark- gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions come from the analysis of how the shape and energy of sprays of…
Opportunities of OO and $p$O collisions at the LHC
- J. Brewer, A. Mazeliauskas, W. Schee
- Physics
- 2 March 2021
This is the summary document of the virtual workshop "Opportunities of OO and pO collisions at the LHC", which took place Feb 4-10, 2021. We briefly review the presented perspectives on the physics…
Saturation of the quantum null energy condition in far-from-equilibrium systems
- C. Ecker, D. Grumiller, W. Schee, P. Stanzer
- PhysicsPhysical Review D
- 26 October 2017
The quantum null energy condition (QNEC) is a new local energy condition that a general quantum field theory (QFT) is believed to satisfy, relating the classical null energy condition (NEC) to the…
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