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The initial state of heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-03 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a brief review of recent theoretical developments and related phenomenological approaches for understanding the initial state of heavy-ion collisions, with emphasis on the Color Glass Condensate formalism.

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@article{arxiv.1302.6433,
  title  = {The initial state of heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Javier L. Albacete and Adrian Dumitru and Cyrille Marquet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6433},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

31 pages, 10 figures, Invited review to appear in a special issue of IJMPA