Hot origin of the Little Bang

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions produce a quark-gluon matter which lies in the future light cone originating from given points on the t = z = 0 plane of the Minkowski spacetime manifold. We show that in a weak coupling regime the Minkowski vacuum of massless fields presents itself in the “Lit...

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1. Verfasser: Akkelin, Sergii V. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 04 December 2017
In: The European physical journal. A, Hadrons and nuclei
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 53, Heft: 12, Pages: 232
ISSN:1434-601X
DOI:10.1140/epja/i2017-12432-1
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12432-1
Verlag, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/i2017-12432-1
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Verfasserangaben:S.V. Akkelin
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Zusammenfassung:Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions produce a quark-gluon matter which lies in the future light cone originating from given points on the t = z = 0 plane of the Minkowski spacetime manifold. We show that in a weak coupling regime the Minkowski vacuum of massless fields presents itself in the “Little Bang” region as a thermal state of low pTpT p_{T} particles, in close analogy to the Unruh effect for uniformly accelerated observers which are causally restricted to a Rindler wedge. It can shed some light on the mechanisms of early time thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.
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ISSN:1434-601X
DOI:10.1140/epja/i2017-12432-1