Collectivity in small systems - Initial state vs. final state effects
Abstract
Observations of long rang azimuthal correlations in small collision systems (p+p/A) have triggered an enormous excitement in the heavy-ion community. However, it is presently unclear to what extent the experimentally observed correlations should be attributed to initial state momentum correlations and/or the final state response to the initial state geometry. We discuss how a consistent theoretical description of the non-equilibrium dynamics is important to address both effects within a unified framework and present first results from weakly coupled non-equilibrium simulations in \cite{Greif:2017bnr} to quantify the relative importance of initial state and final state effects based on theoretical calculations.
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@article{arxiv.1711.08557,
title = {Collectivity in small systems - Initial state vs. final state effects},
author = {Moritz Greif and Carsten Greiner and Björn Schenke and Sören Schlichting and Zhe Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08557},
year = {2018}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of the XLVII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Tlaxcala City, Mexico, September 11--15, 2017; to be published in EPJ-Conferences