Gluon Saturation and the Formation Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions
Larry McLerran
TL;DR
This paper explores the early stages of heavy ion collisions, focusing on gluon saturation, the formation of the Glasma, and its potential evolution into a quark-gluon plasma, highlighting the role of Color Glass Condensate physics.
Contribution
It introduces a detailed description of the Glasma formation process and its significance in understanding the initial conditions of quark-gluon plasma creation.
Findings
Identification of flux tube decay as a key process
Proposal of turbulence in Glasma as a pathway to thermalization
Insights into the role of Color Glass Condensate in high-energy QCD
Abstract
The high energy limit of QCD is controlled by very high energy density gluonic matter, the Color Glass Condensate. In the first instants of the collisions of two sheets of Colored Glass Condensate, a Glasma is formed with longitudinal flux tubes of color electric and magnetic fields. These flux tubes decay and might form a turbulent liquid that eventually thermalizes into a Quark Gluon Plasma
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Taxonomy
TopicsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions