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2009-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/0906.5293v3

Nucl.Phys.A830:519c-522c,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

4 pages, 1 figure1 - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.09.041

We review what is known about the contributions to the final entropy from the different stages of a relativistic nuclear collision, including recent results on the decoherence entropy and the entropy produced during the hydrodynamic phase by viscous effects. We then present a general framework, based on the Husimi distribution function, for the calculation of entropy growth in quantum field theories, which is applicable to the earliest ("glasma") phase of the collision during which most of the entropy is generated. The entropy calculated from the Husimi distribution exhibits linear growth when the quantum field contains unstable modes and is asymptotically equal to the Kolmogorov-Sina\"i (KS) entropy. We outline how the approach can be used to investigate the problem of entropy production in a relativistic heavy-ion reaction from first principles.

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