A hydrodynamic approach to QGP instabilities

We show that the usual linear analysis of QGP Weibel instabilities based on the Maxwell-Boltzmann equation may be reproduced in a purely hydrodynamic model. The latter is derived by the Entropy Production Variational Method from a transport equation including collisions, and can describe highly nonequilibrium flow. We find that, as expected, collisions slow down the growth of Weibel instabilities. Finally, we discuss the strong momentum anisotropy limit.Comment: 11 pages, no figures. v2: minor changes, added references. Accepted in Phys. Rev.

Divergence-type theory of conformal fields

We present a nonlinear hydrodynamical description of a conformal plasma within the framework of divergence-type theories (DTTs), which are not based on a gradient expansion. We compare the equations of the DTT and the second-order theory (based on conformal invariants), for the case of Bjorken ow. The approach to ideal hydrodynamics is faster in the DTT, indicating that our results can be useful in the study of early-time dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Proceedings of IWARA 200

The influence of intruder states in even-even Po isotopes

We study the role of intruder states and shape coexistence in the even-even $^{190-206}$Po isotopes, through an interacting boson model with configuration mixing calculation. We analyzed the results in the light of known systematics on various observable in the Pb region, paying special attention to the unperturbed energy systematics and quadrupole deformation. We find that shape coexistence in the Po isotopes behaves in very much the same way as in the Pt isotopes, i.e., it is somehow hidden, contrary to the situation in the Pb and the Hg isotopes.Comment: Contribution to the Nuclear Structure and Dynamics 2015 (Portorose, Slovenia) proceeding

Nuclear shape coexistence in Po isotopes: An interacting boson model study

Background: The lead region, Po, Pb, Hg, and Pt, shows up the presence of coexisting structures having different deformation and corresponding to different particle-hole configurations in the Shell Model language. Purpose: We intend to study the importance of configuration mixing in the understanding of the nuclear structure of even-even Po isotopes, where the shape coexistence phenomena are not clear enough. Method: We study in detail a long chain of polonium isotopes, 190-208Po, using the interacting boson model with configuration mixing (IBM-CM). We fix the parameters of the Hamiltonians through a least-squares fit to the known energies and absolute B(E2) transition rates of states up to 3 MeV. Results: We obtained the IBM-CM Hamiltonians and we calculate excitation energies, B(E2)'s, electric quadrupole moments, nuclear radii and isotopic shifts, quadrupole shape invariants, wave functions, and deformations. Conclusions: We obtain a good agreement with the experimental data for all the studied observables and we conclude that shape coexistence phenomenon is hidden in Po isotopes, very much as in the case of the Pt isotopes.Comment: To be published in Physical Review C. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.459

Heavy quark collisional energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma including finite relaxation time

In this paper, we calculate the soft-collisional energy loss of heavy quarks traversing the viscous quark-gluon plasma including the effects of a finite relaxation time $\tau_\pi$ on the energy loss. We find that the collisional energy loss depends appreciably on $\tau_\pi$ . In particular, for typical values of the viscosity-to-entropy ratio, we show that the energy loss obtained using $\tau_\pi$ = 0 can be $\sim$ 10$\%$ larger than the one obtained using $\tau_\pi$ = 0. Moreover, we find that the energy loss obtained using the kinetic theory expression for $\tau_\pi$ is much larger that the one obtained with the $\tau_\pi$ derived from the Anti de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory correspondence. Our results may be relevant in the modeling of heavy quark evolution through the quark-gluon plasma.Comment: v2: 5 pages, 4 figures, added references. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.