https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920812002
Constraining QCD transport coefficients in hadron colliders
KEK Theory Center, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1, Ooho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
* e-mail: akihiko.monnai@kek.jp
Published online: 10 May 2019
We review the phenomenology of relativistic nuclear collisions in the light of ultra-high energy cosmic ray physics. A novel phase of quantum chromodynamics called quark-gluon plasma is expected to appear in nuclear collisions at high energies. The produced hot matter is found to be well-described as a relativistic fluid with small viscosity. We show that the transport coefficient can be quantitatively extracted by comparing theoretical estimations of viscous hydrodynamic models to experimental data.
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