Theoretical developments on the initial state in relativistic particle collisions
Nuclear Theory
2023-12-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We discuss recent progress towards developing accurate initial state descriptions for heavy ion collisions focusing on weak coupling based approaches, that enable one to constrain the high-energy structure of nuclei from deep inelastic scattering or proton-nucleus collisions. We review recent developments to determine the event-by-event fluctuating nuclear geometry, to describe gluon saturation phenomena at next-to-leading order accuracy, and to include longitudinal dynamics to the initial state descriptions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.07805,
title = {Theoretical developments on the initial state in relativistic particle collisions},
author = {Heikki Mäntysaari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07805},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures. Presented at the XXXth International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2023), Houston, Texas, USA