Particlization in fluid dynamical simulations of heavy-ion collisions: the \textsc{i}S3D module

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2020.107604MaRDI QIDQ6041032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mike McNelis, Derek Everett, Ulrich Heinz

Publication date 25 May 2023

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08271

zbMATH Keywords

heavy-ion collisionsMonte Carlo simulationparallel computingquark-gluon plasmarelativistic fluid dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Astronomy and astrophysics (85-XX)

Abstract: The iS3D particlization module simulates the emission of hadrons from heavy-ion collisions via Monte-Carlo sampling of the Cooper-Frye formula which converts fluid dynamical information into local phase-space distributions for hadrons. The code package includes multiple choices for the non-equilibrium correction to these distribution functions: the 14-moment approximation, first-order Chapman-Enskog expansion, and two types of modified equilibrium distributions. This makes it possible to explore to what extent heavy-ion experimental data are sensitive to different choices for $delta{f}_n$, presently the main source of theoretical uncertainty in the particlization stage. We validate our particle sampler with a high degree of precision by generating several million hadron emission events from a longitudinally boost-invariant hypersurface and comparing the event-averaged particle spectra and space-time distributions to the Cooper-Frye formula.

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