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Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution

Nuclear Theory 2017-05-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09912,
  title  = {Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution},
  author = {Aleksas Mazeliauskas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09912},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, proceeding for Hot Quarks 2016 conference

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