The rapidity dependence of the initial energy density in heavy-ion collisions
is calculated from a three-dimensional McLerran-Venugopalan model (3dMVn)
introduced by Lam and Mahlon. This model is infrared safe since global color
neutrality is enforced. In this non-boost-invariant framework, the nuclei have
non-zero thickness in the longitudinal direction. This results in Bjorken-x
dependent unintegrated gluon distribution functions which lead to a
rapidity-dependent initial energy density after the collision. The initial
energy density and its rapidity dependence are important initial conditions for
the quark gluon plasma and its hydrodynamic evolution.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Matches the published versio
