Speaker
Markus Leuthner
Description
According to the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, the early stages of heavy ion collisions
are described by a quasi-classical state called Glasma, whose dynamics are governed by the Yang-
Mills (YM) equations. Extending prior work [1], we solve the YM equations analytically in the
weak-field limit, which reduces the field strength tensor components to three-dimensional inte-
grals. These integrals can then be evaluated numerically for different nuclear models. Specifically,
we allow the nuclei to have finite extent in the longitudinal direction, which gives access to the
non-trivial spacetime rapidity dependence of observables such as the energy-momentum tensor of the Glasma.
