Initial Conditions with Flow from a McLerran Venugopalan model with Transverse Dynamics Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Using a recursive solution of the Yang-Mills equation, we calculate analytic expressions for the gluon fields created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at small times . We have worked out explicit solutions for the fields and the energy momentum tensor up to 4th order in an expansion in . We generalize the McLerran-Venugopalan model to allow for a systematic treatment of averaged charge densities 2 that vary as a function of transverse coordinates. This allows us to calculate radial, elliptic and directed flow of gluon fields. Our results can serve as initial conditions for hydrodynamic simulations of nuclear collisions that include initial flow. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • HOT QUARKS 2012: WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS ON THE PHYSICS OF ULTRARELATIVISTIC NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Chen, G., & Fries, R. J.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Chen, Guangyao||Fries, Rainer J

publication date

  • January 2013