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Deviations of the Energy-Momentum Tensor from Equilibrium in the Initial State for Hydrodynamics from Transport Approaches

18 Aug 2015arXiv:1508.04378links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Dmytro Oliinychenko, Hannah Petersen

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Many hybrid models of heavy ion collisions construct the initial state for hydrodynamics from transport models. Hydrodynamics requires that the energy-momentum tensor T^(μν) and four-currents j^μ do not deviate considerably from the equilibrium ideal-fluid form, but the ones constructed from transport do not necessarily possess this property. In this work we investigate the space-time picture of T^(μν) deviations from equilibrium in Au+Au collisions using a coarse-grained transport approach. The collision energy is varied in the range E_(lab) = 5-160A GeV. The sensitivity of T^(μν) deviations from equilibrium to collision centrality, and other parameters such as the switching criterion, the amount of statistics used to construct the initial state, and the smearing parameter σ is investigated. For low statistics deviations of T^(μν) from equilibrium are large and dominated by the effect of finite sampling. For large statistics the pressure anisotropy plays the most significant role, while the off-diagonal components of T^(μν) are small in a large volume during the whole evolution. For all considered energies and centralities the pressure anisotropy exhibits a similar feature: there is a narrow interval of time, when it rapidly drops in a considerable volume. This allows us to introduce an "isotropization time," which is found to decrease with energy and slightly increase with centrality. The isotropization times are larger than times typically used for initializing hydrodynamics.

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