Theoretical Overview Quark Matter '04

Abstract

The much wider transverse-momentum range accessible in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and at the LHC allows us to disentangle the dynamics of partonic equilibration from the dynamics of delayed hadronization. This provides a novel tool for testing the equilibration mechanisms underlying QCD thermodynamics. Here, I argue, on the basis of simple formation-time arguments, why this is so, and I review recent theoretical developments in this context.

12 pages, Latex, 3 eps figures, invited introductory talk at Quark Matter 2004, Oakland, January 11-17, 2004

References in corpus (3)

• Why the observed jet quenching at RHIC is due to parton energy loss
• Scanning the phases of QCD with BRAHMS
• High Pt Hadron Spectra at High Rapidity

Cited by in corpus (9)

• The Fragility of High-pT Hadron Spectra as a Hard Probe
• Testing the Color Charge and Mass Dependence of Parton Energy Loss with Heavy-to-light Ratios at RHIC and LHC
• Saturation and shadowing in high-energy proton-nucleus dilepton production
• Hydrodynamic models
• Predictions for the LHC heavy ion programme
• Effect of hard processes on momentum correlations in $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions
• Identified Hadron Spectra From pp, dA and AA collisions
• From Leading Hadron Suppression to Jet Quenching at RHIC and at the LHC
• Jet physics in ALICE