Ipp Andreas, Müller David I
Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
Eur Phys J A Hadron Nucl. 2020;56(9):243. doi: 10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00241-6. Epub 2020 Sep 30.
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.
我们回顾了在3+1维格莱斯马(Glasma)模拟方面取得的进展,以描述重离子碰撞的最初阶段。在我们的模拟中,我们纳入了具有有限纵向范围的原子核,并使用彩色粒子在格点(particle-in-cell)方法,在实验室坐标系中以3+1维描述碰撞过程以及强相互作用胶子场的演化。这使我们能够计算3+1维的格莱斯马能量-动量张量,其快度依赖性可以与来自相对论重离子对撞机(RHIC)的实验π介子多重性数据进行比较。一种改进的方案解决了数值切伦科夫不稳定性问题,并为在大型强子对撞机(LHC)使用的更高能量下进行模拟铺平了道路。