Theory seminar: Maximilian Attems, "Holographic shockwave collisions at a critical point"

Thursday 16 Nov 2023, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Veltman Center

Ever since extremely fast hydrodynamization has been demonstrated in heavy ion collisions the understanding of the very early non-equilbrium stage of such collisions has been a topic of intense research. We use the gauge/string duality to model the creation of a strongly coupled Quark-Gluon plasma in a non-conformal gauge theory with different phase transitions. The non-trivial equation of state and the presence of a critical point dramatically change the evolution of planar shockwaves.