Complexified boost invariance and holographic heavy ion collisions
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Gubser, Steven S.; van der Schee, Wilke
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At strong coupling holographic studies have shown that heavy ion collisions do not obey normal boost invariance. Here we study a modified boost invariance through a complex shift in time, and show that this leads to surprisingly good agreement with numerical holographic computations. When including perturbations the agreement becomes even better, both in the hydrodynamic and the far-from-equilibrium regime. One of the main advantages is an analytic formulation of the stress-energy tensor of the longitudinal dynamics of holographic heavy ion collisions.
Date issued
2015-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Gubser, Steven S., and Wilke van der Schee. “Complexified Boost Invariance and Holographic Heavy Ion Collisions.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, no. 1 (January 2015).
Version: Final published version
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1029-8479
1126-6708