Initial State Quantum Fluctuations in the Little Bang
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-11-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We review recent developments in the ab-initio theoretical description of the initial state in heavy-ion collisions. We emphasize the importance of fluctuations, both for the phenomenological description of experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the theoretical understanding of the non-equilibrium early time dynamics and thermalization of the medium.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.00335,
title = {Initial State Quantum Fluctuations in the Little Bang},
author = {Francois Gelis and Bjoern Schenke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.00335},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
17 pages, 9 figures, Manuscript accepted by Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science