Dynamics of anisotropic plasma at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

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We discuss the evolution of anisotropic boost-invariant quark-gluon plasma possibly created at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

• Our considerations are based on the recently proposed formalism that is an extension of the relativistic perfect-fluid hydrodynamics.
• We analyze i) the pure partonic system described by the anisotropic phase-space distribution function and ii) the system of partons interacting with the local magnetic fields.
• The second analysis is a simplified attempt to include the effects of color fields on the particle dynamics.