Rotation and Turbulent Instability in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

In recent years fluid dynamical processes became a dominant direction of research in high energy heavy ion reactions. The Quark-gluon Plasma formed in these reactions has low viscosity, which leads to significant fluctuations and special instabilities or flow patterns. One has to study and separate these two effects, but this is not done yet in a systematic way. This presentation presents the most interesting collective flow instabilities, their possible ways of detection and separation form random fluctuations arising from the randomness of the initial configuration in the transverse plane.