Initial fields and instability in the classical model of the heavy-ion collision
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
Color Glass Condensate (CGC) provides a classical description of dense gluon matter at high energies. Using the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model we calculate the initial energy density \epsilon(\tau) in the early stage of the relativistic nucleus-nucleus collision. Our analytical formula reproduces the quantitative results from lattice discretized simulations and leads to an estimate \epsilon(\tau=0.1fm)=40-50GeV/fm^3 in the Au-Au collision at RHIC energy. We then formulate instability with respect to soft fluctuations that violate boost invariance inherent to hard CGC backgrounds. We find unstable modes arising as a result of ensemble average over the initial CGC fields.
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@article{arxiv.0704.3625,
title = {Initial fields and instability in the classical model of the heavy-ion collision},
author = {Kenji Fukushima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3625},
year = {2014}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures