Zimányi School: Hydrodynamics and Thermodynamics in High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to this Special Issue that focuses on hydrodynamics in heavy ion physics and also celebrates and invites contributions from the broad range of topics discussed during the first 20 years of the annual Zimányi Winter Schools on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. In collisions of relativistic heavy ions, a new form of matter, the strongly interacting quark–gluon plasma (sQGP) or quark matter is formed due to extremely high temperature, density, and pressure. Ordinary hadrons, leptons, and photons then emerge from the sQGP, and the produced entropy can be measured after the collisions. The sQGP becomes locally thermalized early, and equations of hydro- and thermodynamics can be utilized to describe its time evolution. Perfect fluid hydrodynamics is a theory without dissipation and internal scale, and many successful predictions about the sQGP have emerged from models based on it. Analytic solutions and numerical simulations are both useful in understanding space–time evolution of the system between its initial and final state. Today, dissipative hydrodynamics is also successfully applied to describe the sQGP, and there are interesting developments about the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics at various orders of dissipation. Meanwhile, thermodynamical properties at different stages of this evolution are important for understanding the sQGP.

One of the main aims of this Special Issue is to encourage interaction between the theoretical and experimental community, so we invite experimental results written up for theorists and we invite theoretical results that have measurable consequences in the spirit of “calculating to measure and measuring to clarify”, one of the traditions of the first 20 years of the Zimányi Schools.

Finally, we also plan to introduce and test a new, donation-based funding scheme for this Special Volume. First of all, your main contribution is expected to be a high-quality paper, which will undergo rigorous and anonymous refereeing. If the paper is accepted, we will ask for a donation, to support open access publication policy. The amount of donation can be larger or smaller than the cost of publishing your paper in this journal. If you have the means, please consider donating as much as reasonably possible on your side: this will support the costs of excellent publications of students or colleagues with modest means. Our aim is to allow for excellent student contributions to be published without the required processing charges, but this will only be possible if senior professionals join this initiative and offer generous donations. We have already started this process, but its success will depend on your contributions, decisions, and generosity.

Manuscript Submission Information for our Special Issue:

The Recommended Donation (RD) for publication in this open access journai is 3400-3800 CHF, but the amount of your donation can be larger or smaller, than this RD.
If you have the means, please consider donating as much as reasonably possible on your side: this will support the costs of excellent publications of students or colleagues with modest means. Our goal is to allow for excellent student contributions to be published without the required article processing charges in this open access journal, but this will only be possible if senior professionals join this initiative and offer generous donations.   
To set the scale, please consider that the Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in regular issues of this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). If you opt to donate less than this value of the APC, then please contact the Guest Editors for the availability of matching funds and donations as the whole volume has to break even.

We look forward to receiving your valuable manuscripts. Write-ups of your contributions will be available at http://zimanyischool.kfki.hu/20/.

Prof. Dr. Máté Csanád
Prof. Dr. László P. Csernai
Prof. T. Csörgő, MAE
Prof. Dr. Fu-Hu Liu
Mr. Gábor Kasza
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Entropy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.