The VII-th International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions : Initial Stages 2023

A novel saturation-based 3+1D initial state model for Heavy Ion Collisions

Jun 20, 2023, 3:20 PM

20m

Aud. 3 (H.C. Ørsted)

Oral The initial stages and nuclear structure in heavy-ion collisions Parallel Session 2

Speaker

Oscar Garcia-Montero

Description

We present a new 3+1D resolved model for the initial state of ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion collisions, based on the $k_\perp$-factorized Color Glass Condensate hybrid approach [1-4]. This new model responds to the need for a rapidity-resolved initial-state Monte Carlo event generator which can deposit the relevant conserved charges (energy, charge and baryon densities) both in the midrapidity and forward/backward regions of the collision.
This event-by-event generator computes the gluon and (anti-) quark phase-space densities using the IP-Sat model, from where the relevant conserved charges can be computed directly. In the present work we have included the leading order contributions to the light flavor parton densities. As a feature, the model can be systematically improved in the future by adding next-to-leading order calculations (in the CGC hybrid framework), and extended to lower energies by including sub-eikonal corrections the channels included. We present relevant observables, such as the eccentricities and flow decorrelation, as tests of this new approach.

References:
[1] O. Garcia-Montero, H. Elfner and S. Schlichting. In preparation.
[2]T. Lappi and S. Schlichting, Phys. Rev. D 97, 034034 (2018), arXiv:1708.08625 [hep-ph].
[3] T. Lappi and H. Mäntysaari, Phys. Rev. D 88, 114020 (2013), arXiv:1309.6963 [hep-ph]
[4] H. Mäntysaari, Scattering off the Color Glass Condensate, Ph.D. thesis, Jyvaskyla U. (2015), arXiv:1506.07313 [hep-ph].

Presentation materials

McDIPPER-OGM-IS2023.pdf