Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution
arXiv:1610.09912 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/832/1/012016
Abstract
We use leading order effective kinetic theory to simulate the pre\nobreakdash-equilibrium evolution of transverse energy and flow perturbations in heavy-ion collisions. We provide a Green function which propagates the initial perturbations of the energy-momentum tensor to a time when hydrodynamics becomes applicable. With this map, the pre-thermal evolution from saturated nuclei to hydrodynamics can be modeled in the framework of weakly coupled QCD.
4 pages, 3 figures, proceeding for Hot Quarks 2016 conference