Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 1317-1342Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183111016920
Keywords
Collision; gravitational; shock wave; numerical solution
Funding
- Helmholtz International Center for FAIR
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We numerically study the evolution of a boost-invariant N = 4 SYM medium using AdS/CFT. We consider a toy model for the collision of gravitational shock waves, finding that the energy density first increases, reaches a maximum and then starts to decrease, matching hydrodynamics for late times. For the initial conditions we consider, the hydrodynamic scale governing the late time behavior is to very good approximation determined by the area of the black hole horizon at initial times. Our results provide a toy model for the early time evolution of the bulk system in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC.
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