2023/04/06 by M. E. Carrington, Carrington, Margaret E., Wade N. Cowie +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.03241
openalex publication_date 2023/04/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In a series of works by two of us, various characteristics of the glasma from the earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been studied using a proper time expansion. These characteristics include: energy density, longitudinal and transverse pressures, collective flow, angular momentum and parameters of jet quenching. In this paper we extend the proper time interval where our results are reliable by working at higher order in the expansion. We also generalize our previous study of jet quenching by extending our calculations to consider inhomogeneous glasma. Inhomogeneities are an important aspect of physically realistic systems that are difficult to include in calculations and are frequently ignored.