Evolution to the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Nuclear Theory
2017-01-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Theoretical studies on the early-time dynamics in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are reviewed including pedagogical introductions on the initial condition with small-x gluons treated as a color glass condensate, the bottom-up thermalization scenario, plasma/glasma instabilities, basics of some formulations such as the kinetic equations and the classical statistical simulation. More detailed discussions follow to make an overview of recent developments on the fast isotropization, the onset of hydrodynamics, and the transient behavior of momentum spectral cascades.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.02340,
title = {Evolution to the Quark-Gluon Plasma},
author = {Kenji Fukushima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02340},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
46 pages, submitted to RoPP Key Issue Review; references added for early works related to aHydro, typos corrected