Heavy Ion Tea

Simulations of Elliptic Flow with Viscosity
Derek Teaney (Arkansas State)

Abstract: First I will review hydrodynamics. Then I will show some first/preliminary plots of simulations of elliptic flow with viscosity. After this introduction I will discuss momentum diffusion of heavy quarks in N=4 Super Yang Mills exploiting the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will review the physics of the correspondence and compute the heavy quark diffusion coefficient for non-relativistic quarks. Subsequently I will compute the transverse momentum broadening of a fast heavy quark moving through the plasma.