Integrated Dynamical Approach to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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We review integrated dynamical approaches to describe heavy ion reaction as a whole at ultrarelativistic energies.

• Since final observables result from all the history of the reaction, it is important to describe all the stages of the reaction to obtain the properties of the quark gluon plasma from experimental data.
• As an example of these approaches, we develop an integrated dynamical model, which is composed of a fully (3+1) dimensional ideal hydrodynamic model with the state-of-the-art equation of state based on lattice QCD, and subsequent hadronic cascade in the late stage.
• Initial conditions are obtained employing Monte Carlo versions of the Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi model (MC-KLN) or the Glauber model (MC-Glauber).