https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817205007
Collectivity in small systems - Initial state vs. final state effects
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560, USA
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China
* e-mail: sslng@uw.edu
Published online: 26 January 2018
Observations of long rang azimuthal correlations in small collision systems (p+p/A) have triggered an enormous excitement in the heavy-ion community. However, it is presently unclear to what extent the experimentally observed correlations should be attributed to initial state momentum correlations and/or the final state response to the initial state geometry. We discuss how a consistent theoretical description of the nonequilibrium dynamics is important to address both effects within a unified framework and present first results from weakly coupled non-equilibrium simulations in [1] to quantify the relative importance of initial state and final state effects based on theoretical calculations.
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