Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 49: 97-102
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0062-0

Regular Article – Theoretical Physics

Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC

¹ Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
² Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

^* e-mail: nonaka@physics.umn.edu

Received: 8 August 2006
Published online: 21 October 2006

Abstract

We introduce a combined fully three-dimensional macroscopic/microscopic transport approach employing relativistic 3D-hydrodynamics for the early, dense, deconfined stage of the reaction and a microscopic non-equilibrium model for the later hadronic stage where the equilibrium assumptions are not valid anymore. Within this approach we study the dynamics of hot, bulk QCD matter, which is being created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. In particular, we perform a detailed analysis of the reaction dynamics, hadronic freeze-out, transverse flow and elliptic flow.