Non abelian hydrodynamics and heavy ion collisions

ESTEBAN CALZETTA

Mexico

Congreso; 5th Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics : Recent developments on physics in strong gravitational fields.; 2013

UNAM

The goal of the relativistic heavy ion collisions(RHIC) program is to create a state of matter where color degrees of freedom are deconfined. The dynamics of matter in this state, in spite of the complexities of quantum chromodynamics, is largely determined by the conservation laws of energy momentum and color currents. Therefore it is possible to describe its main features in hydrodynamic terms, the very short color neutralization time notwithstanding. In this lecture we shall give a simple derivation of the hydrodynamics of a color charged fluid, by generalizing the usual derivation of hydrodynamics from kinetic theory to the non abelian case.