From glasma to quark–gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions

2008/06/11 by Raju Venugopalan
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Collision #Color-glass condensate #Gluon #Hadron #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Materials science #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Range (aeronautics) #Rapidity #Thermalisation #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104003

published as J.Phys.G35:104003,2008 · Plenary Topical Overview Talk, Quark Matter 2008; 10 pages 8 figures

arxiv created 2008/06/11 · openalex publication_date 2008/09/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

When two sheets of Color Glass Condensate collide in a high energy heavy ion collision, they form matter with very high energy densities called the Glasma. We describe how this matter is formed, its remarkable properties and its relevance for understanding thermalization of the Quark Gluon Plasma in heavy ion collisions. Long range rapidity correlations contained in the near side ridge measured in heavy ion collisions may allow one to directly infer the properties of the Glasma.

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