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The amount of axial charge produced in heavy ion collisions is one of the key quantities in understanding chiral magnetic effect. Current phenomenological studies assume large axial charge chemical potential $\mu_5$ produced in Glasma phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-11 Shu Lin , Li Yan , Gui-Rong Liang

A system of gluon fields produced in the earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, which is called `glasma', can be described in terms of classical fields. Initially there are chromoelectric and chromomagnetic fields along the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Sylwia Bazak , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We consider high energy scattering in the effective theory of the Color Glass Condensate. The most convenient degrees of freedom are Wilson lines encoding multiple gluon exchanges, whose evolution with energy follows the JIMWLK equation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 T. Lappi , D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

In the high-energy limit, perturbative calculations in QCD are conveniently done using the dipole picture which factorizes the scattering amplitude into a perturbative part and the nonperturbative scattering off the nuclear target,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jani Penttala

Various forms of matter may be produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. These are the Quark Gluon Plasma, the Color Glass Condensate, the Glasma and Quarkyonic Matter. A novel effect that may be associated with topological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Larry McLerran

We extend the weak field approximation for the Glasma beyond the boost-invariant approximation, which allows us to compute rapidity-dependent observables in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions. We show that in the limit of small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Andreas Ipp , Markus Leuthner , David I. Müller , Soeren Schlichting , Pragya Singh

We present a pedagogical introduction to the theoretical framework of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) and the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model. We discuss the application of the MV model to describe the early-time dynamics of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-22 Kenji Fukushima

We derive an analytical expression for the two-gluon production in the pA (light-heavy) collisions, and focus specifically on the rapidity dependent part. We approximate the gauge field from the heavy target as the Color Glass Condensate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka

Correlation measurements indicate that excess two particle correlations extend over causally disconnected rapidity ranges. Although, this enhancement is broad in relative rapidity $\eta=\eta_1 - \eta_2$, it is focused in a narrow region in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-03 George Moschelli , Sean Gavin

We present a succinct formulation of the energy-momentum tensor of the Glasma characterizing the initial color fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the Color Glass Condensate effective theory. We derive concise expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Andreas Ipp , Markus Leuthner , David I. Müller , Sören Schlichting , Kayran Schmidt , Pragya Singh

We investigate the effect of the glasma classical color fields, produced in the very early stage of heavy-ion collisions, on the transport of heavy quarks. The glasma fields evolve according to the classical Yang-Mills equations, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-03 Dana Avramescu , Vincenzo Greco , Tuomas Lappi , Heikki Mäntysaari , David. I. Müller

Nuclear collisions at high energies produce a gluon field that can be described using the Colour Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory at proper times $\tau \lesssim 1$ fm/c. The theory can be used to calculate the gluon energy-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Margaret E. Carrington , Alina Czajka , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Fluctuation and correlation observables are often measured using multi-particle correlation methods and therefore mutually probe the origins of genuine correlations present in multi-particle distribution functions. We investigate the common…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

In the pre-thermal equilibrium stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a strong quasi-classical transverse gluon field emerges at about $\tau_0 \simeq 0.1 \, \rm fm/c$ and evolves together with their longitudinal counterparts according…

Fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions are larger at RHIC energy than at LHC energy. This fact can be inferred from recent measurements of the fluctuations of the particle multiplicities and of elliptic flow performed at…

The physics of the initial conditions of heavy ion collisions is dominated by the nonlinear gluonic interactions of QCD. These lead to the concepts of parton saturation and the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). We discuss recent progress in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-14 T. Lappi

These two lectures concern the Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma. These are forms of matter which might be studied in high energy hadronic collisions. The Color Glass Condensate is high energy density gluonic matter. It constitutes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-11 Larry McLerran

We compute the azimuthal eccentricities arising from initial stage fluctuations in high energy proton-nucleus collisions at proper times $\tau \geq 0^+$. We consider two sources of fluctuations, namely the geometrical structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 S. Demirci , P. Guerrero-Rodríguez

Within the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective field theory, we investigate the long-range rapidity correlations in proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV. A distinctive correlation rebound is observed, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Donghai Zhang , Yeyin Zhao , Luhua Qiu , Mingmei Xu , Yuanfang Wu

Perturbative unitarization from non-linear effects is thought to deplete the gluon density for transverse momenta below the saturation scale. Such effects also modify the distribution of gluons produced in heavy-ion collisions in transverse…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Adrian Dumitru