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Title Matching the non-equilibrium initial stage of heavy ion collisions to hydrodynamics with QCD kinetic theory
Author(s) Kurkela, Aleksi (CERN ; Stavanger U.) ; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (U. Heidelberg, ITP) ; Paquet, Jean-Francois (Duke U.) ; Schlichting, Sören (Bielefeld U.) ; Teaney, Derek (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Publication SISSA, 2019
Number of pages 10
In: PoS Confinement2018 (2019) 152
In: 13th Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Maynooth, Ireland, 31 Jul - 6 Aug 2018, pp.152
DOI 10.22323/1.336.0152
Subject category Nuclear Physics - Theory ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract In the collision of nuclei at high energies the produced matter reinteracts and forms a plasma which ultimately equilibrates and exhibits collective hydrodynamic flow. While a general theory of the equilibration process has been outlined previously, there were no practical frameworks to smoothly connect the early gluon production in classical field simulations with hydrodynamic simulations of the late time plasma expansion. We provide this practical tool (called KøMPøST) by constructing a set of non-equilibrium Green functions calculated in QCD kinetic theory. We demonstrate with a realistic simulation of a heavy ion collisions the smooth transition from the classical fields to hydrodynamics, and calculate the pragmatic lower bound on the system size forthe hydrodynamics to be applicable.
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