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Heavy quarks, which are produced at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, probe the entire history of the quark-gluon plasma that is created in the collision. Initially the plasma is populated with chromodynamic fields…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Margaret E. Carrington , Alina Czajka , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In relativistic heavy ion collisions, a highly occupied gluonic matter is created shortly after initial impact, which is in a non-thermal state and often referred to as the Glasma. Successful phenomenology suggests that the glasma evolves…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-01 Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-central collisions have angular momentum on the order of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 STAR Collaboration

Large orbital angular momentum can be generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions, and part of it is expected to be converted into final particle's polarization due to the spin-orbit coupling. Within the framework of A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-08 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Qun Wang

In a noncentral heavy-ion collision, the two colliding nuclei have finite angular momentum in the direction perpendicular to the reaction plane. After the collision, a fraction of the total angular momentum is retained in the produced hot…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang

The early stages of heavy ion collisions are dominated by high density systems of gluons that carry each a small fraction $x$ of the momenta of the colliding nucleons. A distinguishing feature of such systems is the phenomenon of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Jean-Paul Blaizot

In peripheral heavy ion collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma that may be formed often has a large angular momentum per unit energy. This angular momentum may take the form of (local) rotation. In many physical systems, rotation can have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Brett McInnes

We perform a calculation of the one- and two-point correlation functions of energy density and axial charge deposited in the glasma in the initial stage of a heavy ion collision at finite proper time. We do this by describing the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-26 Pablo Guerrero-Rodríguez , Tuomas Lappi

In non-central heavy-ion collisions, a large orbital angular momentum of the colliding system is produced, which is then partially transferred to the created medium, resulting in the particle polarization on average along the initial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-30 Takafumi Niida

The earliest phase of an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision can be described as a highly populated system of gluons called glasma. The system's dynamics is governed by the classical Yang-Mills equation. Solutions can be found at early…

We calculate of the one- and two-point correlation functions of the energy density and the divergence of the Chern-Simons current in the nonequilibrium Glasma state formed in a high-energy nuclear collision. We show that the latter depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 T. Lappi , S. Schlichting

Since its discovery, global polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in heavy-ion collisions has been firmly established and is widely attributed to the large vorticity generated in the rotating quark-gluon plasma. In contrast, nearly fifty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Feng Liu , Zhoudunming Tu

The angular momentum of radiation from an arbitrarily moving relativistic charge is studied. The angular momentum is presented as the sum of the angular momentum relative to the point where the charge is located at a retarded moment of time…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Vladimir Epp , Ulyana Guselnikova , Julia Janz

Relativistic nuclear collisions offer a unique way to study strong interactions at very high energy. The collision process can be described within the gluon saturation framework as the interaction of two colored glasses, and because of this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Marco Ruggieri , Santosh Kumar Das

When two sheets of Color Glass Condensate collide in a high energy heavy ion collision, they form matter with very high energy densities called the Glasma. We describe how this matter is formed, its remarkable properties and its relevance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Raju Venugopalan

The early stages in the evolution of the gluons produced in the central region of a head-on high-energy heavy ion collision is studied. An equation is given for the rate of change of transverse momentum into longitudinal momentum where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. H. Mueller

We study the momentum broadening of a high-energy quark jet in the large density gluon medium created right after the collision of two ultrarelativistic heavy nuclei, the Glasma. Previous Glasma studies modeled the jet as a classical probe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-19 Dana Avramescu , Carlos Lamas , Tuomas Lappi , Meijian Li , Carlos A. Salgado

We estimate the energy density and the gluon distribution associated with the classical fields describing the early-time dynamics of the heavy-ion collisions. We first decompose the energy density into the momentum components exactly in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Hirotsugu Fujii , Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka

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…

We study the rotational collective motion of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions using the widely-adopted AMPT (A Multi-Phase Transport) model. The global angular momentum, the average vorticity carried by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-28 Yin Jiang , Zi-Wei Lin , Jinfeng Liao