Classical fields and heavy ion collisions

Abstract

This is a review of numerical applications of classical gluodynamics to heavy ion collisions. We recall some results from calculations of gluon production, discuss their implications for heavy ion phenomenology, and outline a strategy to calculate the number of quark pairs produced by these classical fields.

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Invited talk at the conference Strong and Electroweak Matter, Helsinki, June 2004 (SEWM 2004)