Abstract:
We introduce a combined macroscopic/microscopic transport
approach employing relativistic hydrodynamics for the early,
dense, deconfined stage of the reaction and a microscopic
non-equilibrium model for the later hadronic stage where the
equilibrium assumptions are not valid anymore. Within this
approach we study the dynamics of hot, bulk QCD matter,
which is expected to be created in ultra-relativistic heavy
ion collisions at the SPS, the RHIC and the LHC. Our
approach is capable of self-consistently calculating the
freeze-out of the hadronic system, while accounting for the
collective flow on the hadronization hypersurface generated
by the QGP expansion. In particular, we perform a detailed
analysis of the reaction dynamics, hadronic freeze-out, and
transverse flow.