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- Title
Kinetic evolution of the glasma and thermalization in heavy-ion collisions.
- Authors
Huang, Xu-Guang; Liao, Jinfeng
- Abstract
In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a highly occupied gluonic matter is created shortly after initial impact, which is in a nonthermal state and often referred to as the Glasma. Successful phenomenology suggests that the glasma evolves rather quickly toward the thermal quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and a hydrodynamic behavior emerges at a very early time ~ô(1) fm/c. Exactly how such "apparent thermalization" occurs and connects the initial conditions to the hydrodynamic onset, remains a significant challenge for theory as well as phenomenology. We briefly review various ideas and recent progress in understanding the approach of the glasma to the thermalized QGP, with an emphasis on the kinetic theory description for the evolution of such far-from-equilibrium and highly overpopulated, thus weakly-coupled yet strongly interacting glasma.
- Subjects
HEAVY ion collisions; THERMAL neutrons; COLLISION theory (Chemistry); GLUONS; PHENOMENOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; RELATIVISTIC particles; QUARK-gluon plasma
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics E: Nuclear Physics, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 3, p-1
- ISSN
0218-3013
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218301314300033