Singh, Pragya: Early time dynamics & longitudinal structure of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. 2021
Content
- Introduction
- Theoretical Background
- Preliminary Quantum Chromodynamics
- Color Glass Condensate
- Collision of ultra-relativistic hadrons
- Real-time lattice simulation
- Attributes of Boost-invariant Glasma
- Renormalization equation & beyond the boost-invariance
- 3D Structure of Glasma Initial State
- General formalism for 3+1 D collisions in Yang-Mills theory
- Discretization of gauge fields and currents
- Equations of Motion & Gauss Law
- Initial Conditions for 3+1D collisions
- Ghost cells and Observables
- 3+1D Collisions of individual color charges
- Stable propagation of color charges before and after the collision
- Evolution of the fields during and after the collision
- Space-time rapidity profiles
- 3+1 D Collisions with realistic color charge distributions
- Connection to small-x TMDs
- Sampling of realistic color charge distributions
- Numerical results for realistic charges
- Closing Remarks
- An Analytical study towards dilute 3D Glasma
- General formalism
- Dummy field approach for 3+1D Yang-Mills
- Nuclear Model & Transverse Pressure
- Numerical results & comparisons to 3+1 D simulations
- Closing Remarks
- Longitudinal structure of initial state in p-Pb collisions
- The 3D IP-Glasma model
- IP-Glasma initial condition
- JIMWLK evolution
- Event generation & classical Yang-Mills evolution
- Gluon multiplicity and centrality selection
- Global event structure & nature of high multiplicity events
- Event geometry & initial state moment correlations
- Closing Remarks
- Conclusion
- Discretization effect and approach to the continuum limit
- Analytical results for boost-invariant collisions
- IP-Sat Model