Universal hydrodynamic flow in holographic planar shock collisions

Chesler, Paul M.; Kilbertus, Niki; van der Schee, Wilke

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2015)135

Title: Universal hydrodynamic flow in holographic planar shock collisions

Journal Article · Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)135· OSTI ID:1435621

Chesler, Paul M. ^[1]; Kilbertus, Niki ^[2]; van der Schee, Wilke ^[3]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. Regensburg, Regensburg (Germany)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

We study the collision of planar shock waves in AdS₅ as a function of shock profile. In the dual field theory the shock waves describe planar sheets of energy whose collision results in the formation of a plasma which behaves hydrodynamically at late times. We find that the post-collision stress tensor near the light cone exhibits transient non-universal behavior which depends on both the shock width and the precise functional form of the shock profile. However, over a large range of shock widths, including those which yield qualitative different behavior near the future light cone, and for different shock profiles, we find universal behavior in the subsequent hydrodynamic evolution. In addition, we compute the rapidity distribution of produced particles and find it to be well described by a Gaussian.

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Research Organization:: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011090

OSTI ID:: 1435621

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 11; ISSN 1029-8479

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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