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Isotropization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-11-04 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We numerically solve 2+1D effective kinetic theory of weak coupling QCD under longitudinal expansion relevant for early stages of heavy-ion collisions. We find agreement with viscous hydrodynamics and classical Yang-Mills simulations in the regimes where they are applicable. By choosing initial conditions that are motivated by color-glass-condensate framework we find that for Q=2GeV and αs\alpha_s=0.3 the system is approximately described by viscous hydrodynamics well before τ1.0\tau \lesssim 1.0 fm/c.

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@article{arxiv.1506.06647,
  title  = {Isotropization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Aleksi Kurkela and Yan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06647},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures. Shortened for PRL, figs. 1 and 2 modified

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