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Gluon correlations in the glasma

Tuomas LappiTuomas Lappi

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HistoryParticle physicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Nuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::LatticeNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesParton01 natural sciencesEducationColor-glass condensateNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)0103 physical sciencesNuclear Experiment010306 general physicsNuclear theoryQuantum chromodynamicsPhysicsta114010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyComputer Science ApplicationsGluonHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyNonlinear systemHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentHeavy ionSaturation (chemistry)

description

The physics of the initial conditions of heavy ion collisions is dominated by the nonlinear gluonic interactions of QCD. These lead to the concepts of parton saturation and the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). We discuss recent progress in calculating multi-gluon correlations in this framework, prompted by the observation that these correlations are in fact easier to compute in a dense system (nucleus-nucleus) than a dilute one (proton-proton).

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/270/1/012055