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Relativistic heavy ion collisions produce thousands of particles, and it is sometimes difficult to believe that these processes allow for a theoretical description directly in terms of the underlying theory—QCD. However once the parton densities are sufficiently large, an essential simplification occurs—the dynamics becomes semi-classical. As a result, a simple ab initio approach to the nucleus-nucleus collision dynamics may be justified. In these lectures, we describe the application of these ideas to the description of multi-particle production in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We also discuss the rôle of semi-classical fields in the QCD vacuum in hadron interactions at low and high energies.
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Kharzeev, D. (2002). Classical Chromo-Dynamics of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. In: Blaizot, JP., Iancu, E. (eds) QCD Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter. NATO Science Series, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0267-7_6
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