Pre-thermalization dynamics: initial conditions for QGP at the LHC and RHIC from perturbative QCD

Abstract

I discuss how the initial conditions for QGP-production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC can be computed from perturbative QCD.

Comments: 11 pages, including 2 figures. A lecture at the International School on the Physics of Quark Gluon Plasma, June 3-6, 1997, Hiroshima