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A modified “bottom-up” thermalization in heavy-ion collisions

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In the initial stage of the bottom-up picture of thermalization in heavy-ion collisions, the gluon distribution is highly anisotropic which can give rise to plasma instability. This has not been taken into account in our original paper (Phys. Lett. B 632, 257 (2006) hep-ph/0505164). It is shown that in the presence of instability there are scaling solutions, which depend on one parameter, that match smoothly onto the late stage of bottom-up when thermalization takes place.-1

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  1. Department of Physics, Columbia University, NY 10027, New York, USA

    A. H. Mueller, A. I. Shoshi & S. M. H. Wong

  2. Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    A. I. Shoshi

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Mueller, A.H., Shoshi, A.I. & Wong, S.M.H. A modified “bottom-up” thermalization in heavy-ion collisions. Eur. Phys. J. A 29, 49–52 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10297-5

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