Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-07-28 v1
Abstract
The high energy limit of QCD is controlled by very high energy density gluonic matter, the Color Glass Condensate. In the first instants of the collisions of two sheets of Colored Glass Condensate, a Glasma is formed with longitudinal flux tubes of color electric and magnetic fields. These flux tubes decay and might form a turbulent liquid that eventually thermalizes into a Quark Gluon Plasma
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.4095,
title = {Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions},
author = {Larry McLerran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4095},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Paper prepared for an edition of the Landolt-Bernstein series: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships, Editor in Chief, W. Martienssen, Volume 1/23, Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, edited by R. Stock