Thermalization of the world's smallest fluids: recent developments
arXiv:1404.6976 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.04.030
Abstract
The late Gerry Brown was not shy to tackle complex scientific problems that took time to play out but yielded in the end a deeper understanding of many-body phenomena. In this note, prepared for a memorial volume in his honor, we provide a perspective on a couple of outstanding scientific puzzles that have their origin in our understanding of the thermalization of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, and possibly, in high multiplicity proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions.
12 pages, 1 figure. Invited contribution, based on talk at the Gerald E. Brown memorial workshop. To be published in a special issue of Nuclear Physics A
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