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Towards thermalization in heavy-ion collisions: CGC meets the 2PI formalism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v2

Abstract

We propose to apply the two-particle irreducible (2PI) formalism to the problem of thermalization in heavy-ion collisions in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) picture. We consider the 2PI effective action to three loops and derive a set of coupled equations for the classical Yang-Mills field and the quantum fluctuations in the boost invariant coordinate system. The initial condition and the relation to previous works are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0818,
  title  = {Towards thermalization in heavy-ion collisions: CGC meets the 2PI formalism},
  author = {Yoshitaka Hatta and Akihiro Nishiyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0818},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures; v2: Version to appear in Nuclear Physics A