MC-EKRT: Monte Carlo event generator with saturated minijet production for initializing 3+1 D fluid dynamics in high energy nuclear collisions

2025/10/30 by Niemi, Harri, Auvinen, Jussi, Eskola, Kari J. +3
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.26237

Abstract

We present a novel saturation and leading order collinear factorization based Monte-Carlo implementation of the EKRT model for computing QCD matter initial states in high-energy nuclear collisions. As new features the MC implementation gives a full 3-dimensional initial state event-by-event, introduces new event-by-event fluctuating spatially dependent nuclear parton distribution functions, includes dynamical fluctuations in minijet production and saturation, and accounts for the energy-momentum and valence-quark number conservation.

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