2002/09/27 by Alex Krasnitz, Yasushi Nara, Raju Venugopalan
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(02)01463-x
published as Nucl.Phys.A715:669-672,2003 · 4 pages, 2 figures, talk contributed to Quark Matter-2002 conference (Nantes, France, July 2002)
arxiv created 2002/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/01 · arxiv updated 2010/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that an observable fraction of the measured elliptic flow may originate in classical gluon fields at the initial stage of a peripheral high-energy nuclear collision. This mechanism complements the contribution of late stage mechanisms, such as those described by hydrodynamics, to the observed elliptic flow.