From minijet saturation to global observables in A + A collisions at the LHC and RHIC

TL;DR

This paper reviews how saturated NLO perturbative QCD minijet initial conditions, combined with viscous hydrodynamics, can describe global observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at LHC and RHIC.

Contribution

It integrates saturated NLO pQCD minijet calculations with viscous hydrodynamics to improve understanding of heavy-ion collision data.

Findings

Good agreement with experimental data

Validates the use of saturated NLO pQCD in initial condition modeling

Highlights importance of viscous effects in hydrodynamical evolution

Abstract

We review the recent results from the computation of saturated next-to-leading order perturbative QCD minijet intial conditions combined with viscous hydrodynamical evolution of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC. Comparison with experimental data is shown.