181055 Conferences false [["minutes", "Minutes"], ["notes", "Notes"], ["paper", "Paper"], ["poster", "Poster"], ["slides", "Slides"], ["summary", "Summary"], ["0", "ZIP Archive"]] Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US) wyslouch@mit.edu 1597 wyslouch@mit.edu <p> The Quark Matter series of conferences aims to reunite international specialists in the field of experimental and theoretical heavy ion physics.</p> <p> This fundamental research consists of studying excited matter at the subatomic level to understand how the constituents dynamically arrange themselves to form ordinary matter, and to understand how this organization emerged from the primordial matter created by the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe.</p> <p> The Quark Matter 2012 conference is the twenty-third edition of this prestigious series of international conferences organized approximately every 18 months since 1982. Recent instances of the conference have taken place in Shanghai, China (2006), Jaipur, India (2008), Knoxville, USA (2009). and Annecy, France (2011).</p> <p style="margin-bottom:0"> <strong>Please Note:</strong></p> <ul> <li> Student day will take place on Sunday, August 12, 2012</li> <li> Nuclear Physics A will be sponsoring a NPA Young Scientist Award at QM&#39;12</li> </ul> False 2012-08-12T08:00:00 2012-08-18T18:00:00 2012-03-06T10:23:27 2012-10-03T19:22:31 US/Eastern Yale University (US) john.harris@yale.edu 261 false [["minutes", "Minutes"], ["notes", "Notes"], ["paper", "Paper"], ["poster", "Poster"], ["slides", "Slides"], ["summary", "Summary"], ["0", "ZIP Archive"]] Pre-equilibrium and initial state dynamics 0 Oral Presentation Brookhaven National Laboratory rajuv@mac.com francois.gelis@cern.ch kdusling@gmail.com Brookhaven National Laboratory rajuv@mac.com Empire 2012-08-15T12:00:00 2012-08-15T12:20:00 00:20 We outline significant recent progress in a program to include quantum corrections to the evolution of the classical color fields produced in high-energy ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Previous work in this direction for a scalar \phi^4 theory [1] has now been extended to QCD. Leading contributions from unstable quantum modes can be resumed to all loop orders and expressed in terms of a gauge invariant spectrum of initial quantum fluctuations, which has been computed recently [2]. These fluctuations play a key role in decoherence of the high occupancy fields, and in their possible isotropization and flow, and in the matching of this initial dynamics to hydrodynamic flow, thereby potentially eliminating a big source of uncertainty in hydrodynamic simulations. We report on progress in the 3+1-D numerical computations implementing these pre-equilibrium dynamics. [1] K.~Dusling, T.~Epelbaum, F.~Gelis and R.~Venugopalan, %``Role of quantum fluctuations in a system with strong fields: Onset of hydrodynamical flow,'' Nucl.\ Phys.\ A {\bf 850}, 69 (2011); T.~ Epelbaum and F. Gelis, %``Role of quantum fluctuations in a system with strong fields: Spectral properties and Thermalization,'' Nucl.\ Phys.\ A {\bf 872}, 210 (2011). [2] K.~Dusling, F.~Gelis and R.~Venugopalan, %``The initial spectrum of fluctuations in the little bang,'' Nucl.\ Phys.\ A {\bf 872}, 161 (2011). slides doc http://indico.cern.ch/images/word.png word file ppt http://indico.cern.ch/images/powerpoint.png powerpoint file pdf http://indico.cern.ch/images/pdf_small.png pdf file odt http://indico.cern.ch/images/writer.png writer file odp http://indico.cern.ch/images/impress.png presentation file ods http://indico.cern.ch/images/calc.png spreadsheet file other http://indico.cern.ch/images/file_small.png unknown type file link http://indico.cern.ch/images/link.png link slides doc http://indico.cern.ch/images/word.png word file ppt http://indico.cern.ch/images/powerpoint.png powerpoint file pdf http://indico.cern.ch/images/pdf_small.png pdf file odt http://indico.cern.ch/images/writer.png writer file odp http://indico.cern.ch/images/impress.png presentation file ods http://indico.cern.ch/images/calc.png spreadsheet file other http://indico.cern.ch/images/file_small.png unknown type file link http://indico.cern.ch/images/link.png link 0 doc http://indico.cern.ch/images/word.png word file ppt http://indico.cern.ch/images/powerpoint.png powerpoint file pdf http://indico.cern.ch/images/pdf_small.png pdf file odt http://indico.cern.ch/images/writer.png writer file odp http://indico.cern.ch/images/impress.png presentation file ods http://indico.cern.ch/images/calc.png spreadsheet file other http://indico.cern.ch/images/file_small.png unknown type file link http://indico.cern.ch/images/link.png link 2013-06-19 2013-06-20