https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00241-6
Review
Progress on 3+1D Glasma simulations
Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, 1040, Vienna, Austria
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Received:
1
June
2020
Accepted:
2
September
2020
Published online:
30
September
2020
Abstract
We review our progress on 3+1D Glasma simulations to describe the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions. In our simulations we include nuclei with finite longitudinal extent and describe the collision process as well as the evolution of the strongly interacting gluonic fields in the laboratory frame in 3+1 dimensions using the colored particle-in-cell method. This allows us to compute the 3+1 dimensional Glasma energy-momentum tensor, whose rapidity dependence can be compared to experimental pion multiplicity data from RHIC. An improved scheme cures the numerical Cherenkov instability and paves the way for simulations at higher energies used at LHC.
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