Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026

Real-time stochastic dynamics near a QCD critical point

17 Aug 2026, 14:00

30m

F4050 (4th floor) (University of Helsinki Main Building)

talk (30min) Heavy-ion collisions and the quark gluon plasma Heavy Ion Contributions 2

Speaker

Thomas Schaefer (North Carolina State University)

Description

We describe recent results obtained from numerical simulations
of stochastic fluid dynamics near a QCD critical point. We
discuss results for the dynamic critical exponent, the
critical behavior of transport coefficients, and the relaxation
rate of equal-time correlation functions. We also discuss
some exploratory studies of stochastic relativistic fluid
dynamics.