From Color Fields to Quark Gluon Plasma

Abstract

We discuss a model for the energy distribution and the early space-time evolution of a heavy ion collision. We estimate the gluon field generated in the wake of hard processes and through primordial fluctuations of the color charges in the nuclei. Without specifying the dynamical mechanism of thermalization we calculate the energy momentum tensor of the following plasma phase. The results of this model can be used as initial conditions for a further hydrodynamic evolution.

Contribution to Quark Matter 2005; 4 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (2)

• Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration
• Random walks of partons in SU(N_c) and classical representations of color charges in QCD at small x

Cited by in corpus (19)

• Multi-particle Production and Thermalization in High-Energy QCD
• Early Time Dynamics of Gluon Fields in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Ideal Hydrodynamics for Bulk and Multistrange Hadrons in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200\,AGeV Au-Au Collisions
• Transient field fluctuations effects in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_nn} = 200 GeV
• 3-D structure of the Glasma initial state -- Breaking boost-invariance by collisions of extended shock waves in classical Yang-Mills theory
• Global Flow of Glasma in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Physical characteristics of glasma from the earliest stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Space-time structure of 3+1D color fields in high energy nuclear collisions
• The energy-momentum tensor at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions
• High Baryon Densities in Heavy Ion Collisions at Energies Attainable at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Early Time Evolution of High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
• Conformal symmetry and the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation
• Pressure Anisotropy in Heavy Ion Collisions from Color Glass Condensate
• Initial Angular Momentum and Flow in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• Early Time Dynamics of Gluon Fields in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
• An Initial State with Shear in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions
• Initial Conditions with Flow from a McLerran Venugopalan model with Transverse Dynamics
• Synchrotron radiation in a chromo-magnetic field
• The Initial Flow of Classical Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions