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Initial conditions of heavy ion collisions and small x
Tuomas LappiTuomas Lappisubject
Quantum chromodynamicsPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsLarge Hadron ColliderHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesCollisionColor-glass condensateNuclear physicsNonlinear systemHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Quark–gluon plasmaRapidityNuclear ExperimentPhenomenology (particle physics)description
The Color Glass Condensate (CGC), describing the physics of the nonlinear gluonic interactions of QCD at high energy, provides a consistent first-principles framework to understand the initial conditions of heavy ion collisions. This talk reviews some aspects of the initial conditions at RHIC and discusses implications for LHC heavy ion phenomenology. The CGC provides a way compute bulk particle production and understand recent experimental observations of long range rapidity correlations in terms of the classical glasma field in the early stages of the collision.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-01 |