Development of a 3+1 hydrodynamical code for studies of the Quark Gluon Plasma

• Grant number: 16/03274-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Duration: June 01, 2016 - August 19, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Frédérique Marie Brigitte Sylvie Grassi
• Grantee: Frédérique Marie Brigitte Sylvie Grassi
• Visiting researcher: Jacquelyn Michelle Noronha-Hostler
• Visiting researcher institution: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The study of the Quark Gluon Plasma is important in itself because its properties reflect fundamental characteristics of the strong interactions which are yet poorly understostudood. In addition, this study can benefit from and benefit other areas such as Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics and gauge-gravity duality. It is also relevant to understand phenomena in cosmology and astrophysics (early universe, compact stars, cosmic rays).The observation of the Quark Gluon Plasma as the most perfect fluid created in the laboratory was anounced at RHIC (acelerator near New York-USA) in 2005 and confirmed at the LHC (collidor at CERN-Switzerland) which started to run in 2010. Since then a huge quantity of data have been published. To analyze them correctly we need an adequate tool, a code that solve the equations of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics in 3+1 dimensons. Developping this tool is the main objective of this project.The team involves four researchers and one student: Dr.F.Grassi, her colleague Dr.M.Luzum and the graduate student R.Miller (Instituto de Física-Universidade de São Paulo), Dr.F.Gardim (Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia-Universidade Federal de Alfenas), Dr. J.Noronha-Holster (Department of Physics, University of Houston-USA). (AU)

Scientific publications

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GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Hydrodynamic predictions for mixed harmonic correlations in 200 GeV Au+ Au collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 95, n. 3, p. 8-pg., 2017-03-01. (15/00011-8, 16/03274-2)

GIACALONE, GIULIANO; YAN, LI; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Skewness of elliptic flow fluctuations. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 95, n. 1, p. 6-pg., 2017-01-24. (16/03274-2)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; ISHIDA, PEDRO; LUZUM, MATTHEW; MAGALHAES, PABLO S.; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Sensitivity of observables to coarse-graining size in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C, v. 97, n. 6, JUN 29 2018. (15/00011-8, 16/24029-6, 15/50438-8, 17/05685-2, 16/03274-2)

GIACALONE, GIULIANO; YAN, LI; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES. Skewness of elliptic flow fluctuations. Physical Review C, v. 95, n. 1, JAN 24 2017. (16/03274-2)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Hydrodynamic predictions for mixed harmonic correlations in 200 GeV Au+ Au collisions. Physical Review C, v. 95, n. 3, MAR 1 2017. (15/00011-8, 16/03274-2)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; ISHIDA, PEDRO; LUZUM, MATTHEW; MAGALHAES, PABLO S.; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Probing the transverse size of initial inhomogeneities with flow observables. Nuclear Physics A, v. 982, p. 419-422, FEB 2019. (15/00011-8, 16/03274-2, 18/00407-7, 17/05685-2, 15/50438-8, 16/24029-6)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; LUZUM, MATTHEW; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Mixed Harmonic Correlations: Hydrodynamic Predictions at RHIC using Experimental Analysis Techniques. Nuclear Physics A, v. 967, p. 389-392, NOV 2017. (15/00011-8, 16/03274-2)

GARDIM, FERNANDO G.; GRASSI, FREDERIQUE; ISHIDA, PEDRO; LUZUM, MATTHEW; MAGALHAES, PABLO S.; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN. Sensitivity of observables to coarse-graining size in heavy-ion collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, v. 97, n. 6, p. 10-pg., 2018-06-29. (16/03274-2, 16/24029-6, 15/50438-8, 15/00011-8, 17/05685-2)

GIACALONE, GIULIANO; YAN, LI; NORONHA-HOSTLER, JACQUELYN; OLLITRAULT, JEAN-YVES; HUANG, HZ; SETO, R; THADER, J; XU, N. The fluctuations of quadrangular flow. WAKE CONFERENCE 2021, v. 779, p. 4-pg., 2017-01-01. (16/03274-2)