Initial state in heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-09-16 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We briefly review advances in understanding the initial stages of a heavy ion collision. In particular the focus is on moving from parametrizing the initial state to calculating its properties from QCD, consistently with the description of hard probes and dilute-dense scattering experiments. Modeling the event-by-event fluctuating nuclear geometry in initial state calculations has significantly improved in recent years. We also discuss prospects of directly seeing effects of particle correlations created in the initial state in the experimental observables.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.04503,
title = {Initial state in heavy ion collisions},
author = {T. Lappi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04503},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures. Plenary talk at Hard Probes 2015 conference, Montreal, QC, June/July 2015