Event-By-Event Initial Conditions for Heavy Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2017-05-24 v1
Abstract
The early time dynamics of heavy ion collisions can be described by classical fields in an approximation of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) called Color Glass Condensate (CGC). Monte-Carlo sampling of the color charge for the incoming nuclei are used to calculate their classical gluon fields. Following the recent work by Chen et al. we calculate the energy momentum tensor of those fields at early times in the collision event-by-event. This can then be used for subsequent hydrodynamic evolution of the single events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.05271,
title = {Event-By-Event Initial Conditions for Heavy Ion Collisions},
author = {Steven Rose and Rainer J. Fries},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05271},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Proceedings for Hot Quarks 2016; 4 pages; 2 figures