Bulk viscosity and cavitation in boost-invariant hydrodynamic expansion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rajagopala, Krishna ^a   Tripuranenib, Nilesh ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Clovis West High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954940503     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)018     Document Type: Article

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