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DUAN F217

Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Research Interests

Cold Dense Matter, Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics, Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities, Nonlinear Gravity among other topics.

Selected Publications

1. A. Kurkela, P. Romatschke, A. Vuorinen and B. Wu, Looking inside neutron stars: Microscopic calculations confront observations (2010).
2. A. Kurkela, P. Romatschke and A. Vuorinen, Cold Quark Matter, Phys.Rev.D81:105021 (2010).
3. Eduardo S. Fraga, Paul Romatschke, The Role of quark mass in cold and dense perturbative QCD, Phys.Rev.D71:105014 (2005).
4. P. Romatschke, Relativistic Viscous Fluid Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Entropy, Class.Quant.Grav.27:025006 (2010).
5. P. Romatschke, New Developments in Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics, Int.J.Mod.Phys.E19:1-53 (2010).
6. M. Luzum and P. Romatschke, Viscous Hydrodynamic Predictions for Nuclear Collisions at the LHC, Phys.Rev.Lett.103:262302 (2009).
7. P. Romatschke, Momentum broadening in an anisotropic plasma, Phys. Rev. C75, 014901 (2007).
8. P. Romatschke and A. Rebhan, Plasma Instabilities in an Anisotropically Expanding Geometry, Phys. Rev. Lett.97, 252301 (2006).
9. P. Romatschke and R. Venugopalan, The Unstable Glasma, Phys. Rev. D74, 045011 (2006).
10. Daniel Grumiller, Paul Romatschke, On the collision of two shock waves in AdS5 JHEP 0808:027 (2008).