The Standard Model for Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions and Electromagnetic Tomography
This thesis focuses on developing a standard theoretical framework to study the bulk dynamics and electromagnetic probes of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, which are presently studied experimentally at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We developed a modular numerical package with different (exchangeable) modular describing different evolution stages of the expanding fireball created in these collisions. For each stage of the collisions, we will give a detailed description of the theoretical model and its corresponding numerical implementation, supplemented with code checking tests.