3D Initial-State Dynamics across scales: A Comparative Study of saturation and string-based descriptions
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| author | Constantin, Lucas Garcia-Montero, Oscar Götz, Niklas Elfner, Hannah |
| author_facet | Constantin, Lucas Garcia-Montero, Oscar Götz, Niklas Elfner, Hannah |
| contents | We compare the longitudinal deposition of various conserved quantities in the initial condition models of a string based (SMASH) and a saturation based (McDipper) approach. SMASH has been shown to work reasonably well at lower collision energies as an initial condition for the SMASH-vHLLE hybrid approach, while McDipper, based on the color-glass-condensate (CGC), works well in the regime of perturbative QCD. The two models are capable of providing longitudinally resolved initial conditions, which is essential for 3D hydrodynamical simulations. The goal of this study is to interface the different regions of applicability of the two models, to investigate the initial state dynamics in the intermediate energy regime. We analyze the deposition of transverse energy, charge and baryon number across a large range of collision energies (62.4 GeV to 5.02 TeV) and find that, while they are good agreement at lower energies, their energy and baryon deposition differs substantially at higher center of mass energies. |
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| spellingShingle | 3D Initial-State Dynamics across scales: A Comparative Study of saturation and string-based descriptions Constantin, Lucas Garcia-Montero, Oscar Götz, Niklas Elfner, Hannah High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory We compare the longitudinal deposition of various conserved quantities in the initial condition models of a string based (SMASH) and a saturation based (McDipper) approach. SMASH has been shown to work reasonably well at lower collision energies as an initial condition for the SMASH-vHLLE hybrid approach, while McDipper, based on the color-glass-condensate (CGC), works well in the regime of perturbative QCD. The two models are capable of providing longitudinally resolved initial conditions, which is essential for 3D hydrodynamical simulations. The goal of this study is to interface the different regions of applicability of the two models, to investigate the initial state dynamics in the intermediate energy regime. We analyze the deposition of transverse energy, charge and baryon number across a large range of collision energies (62.4 GeV to 5.02 TeV) and find that, while they are good agreement at lower energies, their energy and baryon deposition differs substantially at higher center of mass energies. |
| title | 3D Initial-State Dynamics across scales: A Comparative Study of saturation and string-based descriptions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16914 |