Early dynamics of transversally thermalized matter

Abstract

We argue that the idea that the parton system created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is formed in a state with transverse momenta close to thermodynamic equilibrium and its subsequent dynamics at early times is dominated by pure transverse hydrodynamics of the perfect fluid is compatible with the data collected at RHIC. This scenario of early parton dynamics may help to solve the problem of early equilibration.

4 pages, 2 figures, Talk given by M. Chojnacki at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India

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