Modelling early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Autor: Ruggieri M., Puglisi A., Oliva L., Plumari S., Scardina F., Greco V.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 117, p 03014 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611703014
Popis: In this study we model early time dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions by an initial color-electric field which then decays to a plasma by the Schwinger mechanism. The dynamics of the many particles system produced by the decay is described by relativistic kinetic theory, taking into account the backreaction on the color field by solving self-consistently the kinetic and the field equations. Our main results concern isotropization and thermalization for a 1+1D expanding geometry. In case of small η/s (η/s ≲ 0.3) we find τisotropization ≈ 0.8 fm/c and τthermalization ≈ 1 fm/c in agreement with the common lore of hydrodynamics.
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