{
  "id": "1710.03776",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-10-10T18:32:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-10-10T18:32:10.000Z",
  "title": "The sounds of the Little and Big Bangs",
  "authors": [
    "E. Shuryak"
  ],
  "comment": "This paper is a short semi-popular review describing some recent developments in two very different fields, united by some common physics. It was written for the Universe journal",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Studies of heavy ion collisions have discovered that tiny fireballs of new phase of matter -- quark gluon plasma (QGP) -- undergoes explosion, called the Little Bang. In spite of its small size, it is not only well described by hydrodynamics, but even small perturbations on top of the explosion turned to be well described by hydrodynamical sound modes. The cosmological Big Bang also went through phase transitions, the QCD and electroweak ones, which are expected to produce sounds as well. We discuss their subsequent evolution and hypothetical inverse acoustic cascade, amplifying the amplitude. Ultimately, collision of two sound waves leads to formation of gravity waves, with the smallest wavelength. We briefly discuss how those can be detected.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-10-10T18:32:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "big bang",
      "heavy ion collisions",
      "quark gluon plasma",
      "hypothetical inverse acoustic cascade",
      "tiny fireballs"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}