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We use effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling, to simulate the preequilibrium evolution of transverse energy and flow perturbations in heavy-ion collisions. We provide a Green function which propagates the initial perturbations to the energymomentum tensor at a time when hydrodynamics becomes applicable. With this map, the complete pre-thermal evolution from saturated nuclei to hydrodynamics can be modelled in a perturbatively controlled way.
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Keegan, L., Kurkela, A., Mazeliauskas, A. et al. Initial conditions for hydrodynamics from weakly coupled pre-equilibrium evolution. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 171 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)171
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