arXiv:1302.6433·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
The initial state of heavy-ion collisions
Javier L. Albacete🇪🇸 · Adrian Dumitru🇺🇸 · Cyrille Marquet🇫🇷
Abstract
We present a brief review of recent theoretical developments and related phenomenological approaches for understanding the initial state of heavy-ion collisions, with emphasis on the Color Glass Condensate formalism.
Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, Invited review to appear in a special issue of IJMPA