Developing a new Monte Carlo for heavy-ion collisions

Author(s)

Rodrigo Guanciale Franco

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI)
• Defense date: 2021-09-17

Examining board members

Matthew William Luzum; Jorge Jose Leite Noronha Junior; Tiago José Nunes da Silva

• Advisor: Matthew William Luzum

Abstract

At the early stages of our Universe, there was a phase of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Today, at particle accelerators such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), beams of particles are accelerated to such expressive speeds that we can achieve the necessary temperatures to recreate this exotic phase of matter. In possession of these experiments and according to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which is the theory describing the behavior of partons, in these temperatures there is a rupture of the hadronic structure. The quarks are confined within the hadrons, but as this structure gives in, they interact with each other behaving as a fluid, and therefore relativistic hydrodynamics can explain its behavior. This study proposes to create a computational implementation that can replicate any given statistics with correlated fluctuations. Particularly, it was implemented the state-of-the-art model of initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions using our most recent theoretical advances, so that it can be used to perform hydrodynamic simulations. This code, therefore, seeks to generate fluctuating correlated energy density profiles. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 19/04318-1 - Developing a new Monte Carlo model for heavy-ion collisions
• Grantee: Rodrigo Guanciale Franco
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master