Speaker
Description
I will review recent developments in the description of fluctuating initial conditions in heavy ion collisions.
In particular I will describe the boost invariant Yang-Mills framework and the IP-Glasma model, which are valid at high collision energies.
I will describe various observables, ranging from multiplicity distributions and event-by-event distributions of anisotropic flow coefficients.
I will then discuss the extension of the model to 3 dimensions using JIMWLK renormalization group equations, which resum logarithmically enhanced quantum fluctuations. Within this framework I will present various rapidity dependent observables. Finally, I will discuss the inclusion of quantum corrections beyond the logarithmically enhanced contribution and how a fully 3+1 dimensional simulation will include plasma instabilities and possible isotropization of the non-equilibrium early-time system.
