Causality violations in realistic simulations of relativistic nuclear collisions
We show that relativistic causality is violated in the early stages of state-of-the-art heavy-ion hydrodynamic simulations of nuclear collisions. Up to 75% of the initial fluid cells violate nonlinear causality constraints, while superluminal propagation is observed by up to 15% the speed of light....
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2023-01-01
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| Series: | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/02/epjconf_sqm2022_06002.pdf |
| Summary: | We show that relativistic causality is violated in the early stages of state-of-the-art heavy-ion hydrodynamic simulations of nuclear collisions. Up to 75% of the initial fluid cells violate nonlinear causality constraints, while superluminal propagation is observed by up to 15% the speed of light. Only after 2-3 fm/c of evolution, do 50% of the fluid cells become definitely causal. Inclusion of pre-equilibrium evolution significantly reduces the number of acausal cells, but it does not eliminate them. Relativistic causality thus imposes constraints on the model parameter space of heavy-ion collision simulations. |
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| ISSN: | 2100-014X |