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 =0.3 the system is approximately described by viscous hydrodynamics well before fm/c.
Cite
@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