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Pre-thermalization dynamics: initial conditions for QGP at the LHC and RHIC from perturbative QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

I discuss how the initial conditions for QGP-production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC can be computed from perturbative QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9708472,
  title  = {Pre-thermalization dynamics: initial conditions for QGP at the LHC and RHIC from perturbative QCD},
  author = {K. J. Eskola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9708472},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, including 2 figures. A lecture at the International School on the Physics of Quark Gluon Plasma, June 3-6, 1997, Hiroshima