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D. Mueller, A. Ipp, D. Gelfand:
"Simulating collisions of thick nuclei in the color glass condensate framework";
Talk: Instituto Gallego de Física de Altas Energías (IGFAE) Seminar, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain (invited); 2016-09-07.

I present our work on the simulation of the quark-gluon-plasma using the colored particle-in-cell (CPIC) method. CPIC is a generalization of particle-in-cell simulations - commonly used in plasma physics - to real-time non-abelian lattice gauge theories. Using this method we are able to model the early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions in the laboratory frame in 3+1 dimensions. In particular we study the effects of finite pancake thickness in the McLerran-Venugopalan model. Our approach requires a consistent treatment of gauge fields and color currents, which is achieved using charge-conserving CPIC methods. We show that the description in the laboratory frame agrees with boost-invariant approaches as a limiting case and investigate collisions beyond boost-invariance.

color glass condensate, glasma, heavy-ion collision, cpic

Project Head Andreas Ipp:
Quark-Gluon-Plasma Dynamik mit Colored-Particle-in-Cell Simulationen