Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Fluctuating yet deterministic hydrodynamics and critical point

Xin An

North Carolina University, Chapel Hill

Fluctuations are ubiquitous phenomena emerging in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. In the context of heavy-ion collisions where the system can be treated hydrodynamically, fluctuations are important for describing the event-by-event collision processes, and become rather crucial for understanding the universal behavior when the Quantum Chromodynamic critical point is approached. In this talk, I will discuss the stochastic hydrodynamics from the deterministic viewpoint, with an emphasis on its implementation in the critical regime. This formalism constitutes an integral part of the theoretical framework for interpreting the forthcoming experimental results from the second phase of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program.