Fluctuations driven isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions
arXiv:0801.1628 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.78.014906
Abstract
Averaged over ensemble of initial conditions kinetic transport equations of weakly coupled systems of quarks and gluons are derived. These equations account for the correlators of fluctuations of particles and classical gluon fields. The isotropization of particle momenta by field fluctuations at the early prethermal stage of matter evolution in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is discussed. Our results can be useful for understanding under what conditions isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions can be reached within phenomenologically observed time scales.
arXiv comment16 pages, misprints corrected, to be published in Phys. Rev. C
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