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arXiv:1311.3390 (nucl-th)
[Submitted on 14 Nov 2013 (v1), last revised 11 Mar 2014 (this version, v2)]

Title:Rapidity Profile of the Initial Energy Density in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Authors:Sener Ozonder, Rainer J. Fries
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Abstract:The rapidity dependence of the initial energy density in heavy-ion collisions is calculated from a three-dimensional McLerran-Venugopalan model (3dMVn) introduced by Lam and Mahlon. This model is infrared safe since global color neutrality is enforced. In this non-boost-invariant framework, the nuclei have non-zero thickness in the longitudinal direction. This results in Bjorken-x dependent unintegrated gluon distribution functions which lead to a rapidity-dependent initial energy density after the collision. The initial energy density and its rapidity dependence are important initial conditions for the quark gluon plasma and its hydrodynamic evolution.
Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures. Matches the published version
Subjects: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Report number: INT-PUB-13-041
Cite as: arXiv:1311.3390 [nucl-th]
  (or arXiv:1311.3390v2 [nucl-th] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1311.3390
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. C 89, 034902 (2014)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.034902

Submission history

From: Sener Ozonder [view email]
[v1] Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:12:00 UTC (241 KB)
[v2] Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:21:35 UTC (246 KB)
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