6–12 Apr 2025
Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone

Rapidity-dependent QGP equilibration in QCD kinetic theory

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20m
Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Poster Collective dynamics & small systems Poster session 2

Speakers

Aleksas Mazeliauskas Luyao Fabian Zhou (ITP Heidelberg)

Description

Weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory can well describe the non-equilibrium evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in the early stages of high-energy nuclear collisions. Previous studies in homogeneous and boost invariant systems have shown rapid hydrodynamisation and entropy production during the first $1~\text{fm}/c$. In this work, we relax the assumption of boost invariance and study the early time dynamics for realistic rapidity profiles of initial quark and gluon distributions. Using state-of-the-art 3D initial-state models, we study thermalisation, hydrodynamisation and chemical equilibration of the QGP as a function of rapidity. In addition, we look at the rapidity evolution of initial state perturbations and charge diffusion.

Category Theory

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