Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Phenomenology of the non-equilibrium QCD dynamics in heavy-ion collisions

Sören Schlichting

Bielefeld University

High-energy hadron collisions produce a deconfined Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) whose space-time evolution is conventionally described within the framework of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. Over the course of the last few years significant progress has been made in understanding the emergence of hydrodynamic behavior of the QGP from the far-from equilibrium state created in the collision of heavy nuclei. Subsequent to a short review of the theoretical progress in these areas, I will focus on phenomenological applications to entropy production, flow in small systems, electromagnetic probes and jet quenching that potentially allow to probe non-equilibrium processes in the QGP in heavy-ion experiments.