9th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Equilibration of a Heavy Ion Collision

Apr 16, 2021, 4:30 PM

30m

Oral Presentation Plenary Session 5

Speaker

Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)

Description

I describe recent work on the equilibration process in heavy ion collisions by outlining some old ideas from QCD kinetics, and their recent realizations in practical computer codes. These calculations connect hydrodynamic phenomenology in large nuclei with properties of the incoming wave-functions, placing reasonable constraints on the magnitude of the saturation scale in central heavy ion collisions. I will also review efforts to probe this current theoretical understanding of the equilibration processes using the measured of correlations in smaller nuclei.

Presentation materials

dteaney_ghp2021.pdf