| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:2005.12299 ; CERN-TH-2020-080 |
| Title | QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections |
| Related title | Thermalization in QCD: theoretical approaches, phenomenological applications, and interdisciplinary connections |
| Author(s) | Berges, Jürgen (U. Heidelberg, ITP) ; Heller, Michal P. (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.) ; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (CERN) ; Venugopalan, Raju (Brookhaven) |
| Publication | 2021-07-01 |
| Imprint | 2020-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 73 |
| Note | 73 pages, 32 figures, prepared for Reviews of Modern Physics; version 2: small improvements and additions, submitted version; version 3: accepted version; title changed, differs in style and format from published version in Reviews of Modern Physics |
| In: | Rev. Mod. Phys. 93 (2021) 035003 |
| DOI | 10.1103/RevModPhys.93.035003 (publication) |
| Subject category | quant-ph ; General Theoretical Physics ; nucl-th ; Nuclear Physics - Theory ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology ; cond-mat.quant-gas ; hep-th ; Particle Physics - Theory |
| Abstract | Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with temperatures extracted from relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations shown to be well above the transition temperature from hadron matter. How the strongly correlated quark-gluon matter forms in a heavy-ion collision, its properties off-equilibrium, and the thermalization process in the plasma, are outstanding problems in QCD. We review here the theoretical progress in this field in weak coupling QCD effective field theories and in strong coupling holographic approaches based on gauge-gravity duality. We outline the interdisciplinary connections of different stages of the thermalization process to non-equilibrium dynamics in other systems across energy scales ranging from inflationary cosmology, to strong field QED, to ultracold atomic gases, with emphasis on the universal dynamics of non-thermal and of hydrodynamic attractors. We survey measurements in heavy-ion collisions that are sensitive to the early non-equilibrium stages of the collision and discuss the potential for future measurements. We summarize the current state-of-the art in thermalization studies and identify promising avenues for further progress. |
| Copyright/License | publication: © 2021-2024 American Physical Society preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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