Comparing matching prescriptions between pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic models in high-energy nuclear collisions

State-of-the-art simulations of high-energy nuclear collisions rely on hybrid setups, involving in particular a pre-equilibrium stage to let the system evolve from a far-from-equilibrium initial condition towards a near-equilibrated state after which fluid dynamics can be applied meaningfully. A kno...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-10
Main Authors: Borghini, Nicolas, Krupczak, Renata, Roch, Hendrik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atomic collisions
Equations of state
Equilibrium
Fluid dynamics
Hybrid systems
Matching
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Summary:State-of-the-art simulations of high-energy nuclear collisions rely on hybrid setups, involving in particular a pre-equilibrium stage to let the system evolve from a far-from-equilibrium initial condition towards a near-equilibrated state after which fluid dynamics can be applied meaningfully. A known issue is the mismatch between the equation of state in the fluid-dynamical evolution and the effective one in the previous stage, which leads to discontinuities at the interface between the two models. Here we introduce a new matching prescription at this interface, based on the entropy, and we compare it with the standard one relying on local energy conservation. We study the behavior of various quantities at the switching time between the models and investigate a number of final-state hadronic observables. For the latter, we show that they are not modified significantly by the choice of matching prescription, provided an appropriate normalization is chosen for the initial state. In turn, our approach reduces sizeably the ratio of bulk over thermodynamic pressure at the beginning of the fluid-dynamical stage.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2407.10634