How quantum mechanics of the yang-mills fields may help us understand the RHIC puzzles

RHIC data display robust collective flow and strong jet quenching, both indicated very early production of highly excited matter, presumably in the QGP phase. How this happens still has to be explained: simple extrapolation of pQCD to 1 GeV domain (a minijet scenario) has failed to do so by a large margin. We propose a non-perturbative scenario based on excitation of certain topological gluonic clusters, remnants of vacuum tunneling paths (instantons), which lead to very high rate of quark pair production and may explain the entropy puzzle. Other (independent) ideas aimed at enhancement of the jet quenching are based on coherence of classical glue and specific geometry arising from exploding clusters. It is illustrated by synchrotron-like QCD radiation in constant gluo-magnetic field.