24–26 Jun 2019
Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba
Japan timezone

The QCD critical point hunt: new dynamic framework and first simulation results

25 Jun 2019, 11:00
45m
134 (Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba)

134

Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba

3-29-1 Otsuka Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0012 Japan
Invited talk Session 6

Speaker

Dr Yi Yin (MIT)

Description

The on-going heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC is scanning the baryon-rich regime of the QCD phase diagram with an unprecedented precision that would potentially discover the QCD critical point, the landmark point in the phase diagram. On the theory front, conventional hydrodynamic modeling would not be sufficient for the critical point hunt. Instead, I will present a novel theoretical framework, namely "hydro+", which couples critical fluctuations to bulk evolution of the "fireball" created in heavy-ion collisions. I will show the first results on the numerical simulations of "hydro+", and, if time is permitted, discuss the interesting connection of "hydro+" to other approaches of fluctuating hydrodynamics.

Primary author

Dr Yi Yin (MIT)

Presentation materials