Initial state of Heavy-Ion Collisions: Isotropization and thermalization

Abstract

I discuss how local thermal equilibrium and hydrodynamical flow are reached in heavy-ion collisions in the weak coupling limit.

8 pages, 5 figs, proceedings of the Quark Matter 2015

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