Published August 2007
| Version v1
Journal article
Early time evolution of high-energy heavy-ion collisions
Creators
- 1. RIKEN/BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
- 2. Cyclotron Institute and Department of Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 (United States)
Description
We solve the Yang-Mills equations in the framework of the McLerran-Venugopalan model for small times τ after a collision of two nuclei. An analytic expansion around τ = 0 leads to explicit results for the field strength and the energy-momentum tensor of the gluon field at early times. We then discuss constraints for the energy density, pressure and flow of the plasma phase that emerges after thermalization of the gluon field
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/0954-3899/34/8/S111;
- PII
- S0954-3899(07)43523-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 34
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. S851-S854
- ISSN
- 0954-3899
- CODEN
- JPGPED
Conference
- Title
- 19. international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
- Acronym
- Quark matter 2006
- Dates
- 14-20 Nov 2006
- Place
- Shanghai (China)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39051021
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; GLUONS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; QUARK MATTER; SPACE-TIME MODEL; THERMALIZATION; TIME DEPENDENCE; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; CLUSTER EMISSION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; MULTIPERIPHERAL MODEL; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PERIPHERAL MODELS; SLOWING-DOWN; TENSORS