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Title: Hydrodynamization and nonequilibrium Green’s functions in kinetic theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

Nonequilibrium Green’s functions provide an efficient way to describe the evolution of the energy-momentum tensor during the early-time preequilibrium stage of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Besides their practical relevance they also provide a meaningful way to address the question when and to what extent a hydrodynamic description of the system becomes applicable. Within the kinetic theory framework we derive a new method to calculate time-dependent nonequilibrium Green’s functions describing the evolution of energy and momentum perturbations on top of an evolving far-from-equilibrium background. We discuss the approach toward viscous hydrodynamics along with the emergence of various scaling phenomena for conformal systems. By comparing our results obtained in the relaxation time approximation to previous calculations in Yang-Mills kinetic theory, we further address the question which macroscopic features of the energy-momentum tensor are sensitive to the underlying microscopic dynamics.

Research Organization:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-03ER41260
OSTI ID:
1659546
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1800099
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 102 Journal Issue: 5; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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