Small System Collectivity in Relativistic Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions

The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well described in terms of nearly inviscid hydrodynamics, thereby establishing this system of quarks and gluons as the most perfect fluid in nature. A revolution in the field is under way, spearheaded by the discovery of similar collective, fluid-like phenomena in much smaller systems including p+ p, p+ A, d+Au, and3He+Au collisions. We review these exciting new observations and their profound implications for hydrodynamic descriptions of small and/or out-of-equilibrium systems.

On some solutions representing a dipole field immersed in an infinite plasma

It is shown that some recent solutions representing a dipole field immersed in an infinite plasma, which is perfectly conducting, belong to the vorticity equation in steady inviscid hydrodynamics. Further solutions of this equation, referring to the same problem, are constructed and discussed.