Initial state and thermalization in the Color Glass Condensate framework

Abstract

In this review, I present the description of the early stages of heavy ion collisions at high energy in the Color Glass Condensate framework, from the pre-collision high energy nuclear wavefunction to the point where hydrodynamics may start becoming applicable.

Review to appear in QGP5, 64 pages, 67 figures

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• Non-abelian plasma instabilities for strong anisotropy
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• Linearly polarized gluons and axial charge fluctuations in the Glasma
• Anisotropic momentum broadening in the 2+1D Glasma: analytic weak field approximation and lattice simulations
• Broken boost invariance in the Glasma via finite nuclei thickness
• Heavy quark diffusion in an overoccupied gluon plasma
• Initial correlations of the Glasma energy-momentum tensor
• Progress on 3+1D Glasma simulations
• Spatially Assisted Schwinger Mechanism and Magnetic Catalysis
• Broad excitations in a 2+1D overoccupied gluon plasma
• Spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma
• Quantum corrections to the Classical Statistical Approximation for the expanding quantum field
• Evolution of initial stage fluctuations in the glasma
• Hot origin of the Little Bang
• The Propagator Matrix Reloaded
• Bulk quantities in nuclear collisions from running coupling $k_T$-factorization and hybrid simulations