Classical simulations and particle production in heavy-ion collisions

✍ Scribed by Jon-Ivar Skullerud

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 452 KB
• Volume: 128
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)02479-4

✦ Synopsis

The classical approximation may be applied to a number of problems in non-equilibrium field theory. The principles and limits of classical real-time lattice simulations are presented, with particular emphasis on the definition of particle numbers and energies and on applications to the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions.