Viscous Hydrodynamic Evolution with Non-Boost Invariant Flow for the Color Glass Condensate

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments have revealed that the predictions of the color glass condensate (CGC) tend to underestimate the multiplicity at mid-rapidity. We develop and estimate a full second-order viscous hydrodynamic model for the longitudinal expansion to find that the CGC rapidity distributions are visibly deformed during the hydrodynamic stage due to the interplay between the entropy production and the entropy flux to forward rapidity. The results indicate the importance of viscous hydrodynamic evolution with non-boost invariant flow for understanding the CGC in terms of the heavy ion collisions.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2011, May 23 - May 28, Annecy, France