{
  "id": "1210.6838",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-10-25T13:45:31.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-10-25T13:45:31.000Z",
  "title": "Thermalization and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Overpopulated Glasma",
  "authors": [
    "Jean-Paul Blaizot",
    "Francois Gelis",
    "Jinfeng Liao",
    "Larry McLerran",
    "Raju Venugopalan"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter 2012, August 13-18, 2012, Washington DC",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-ex",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report recent progress on understanding the thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma during the early stage in a heavy ion collision. The initially high overpopulation in the far-from-equilibrium gluonic matter (\"Glasma\") is shown to play a crucial role. The strongly interacting nature (and thus fast evolution) naturally arises as an {\\em emergent property} of this pre-equilibrium matter where the intrinsic coupling is weak but the highly occupied gluon states coherently amplify the scattering. A possible transient Bose-Einstein Condensate is argued to form dynamically on a rather general ground. We develop a kinetic approach for describing its evolution toward thermalization, and based on that we find approximate scaling solutions as well as numerically study the onset of condensation.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-10-25T13:45:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "bose-einstein condensation",
      "overpopulated glasma",
      "thermalization",
      "gluon states coherently amplify",
      "occupied gluon states"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.144",
      "journal": "Nuclear Physics A",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 904,
      "pages": 829
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1193364,
      "adsabs": "2013NuPhA.904..829B"
    }
  }
}