Thermalization of quark-gluon matter by 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings
arXiv:nucl-th/0702036 · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/34/8/S113
Abstract
Thermalization of quark-gluon matter is studied with a transport equation that includes contributions of 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings. Thermalization time is related to the squared amplitudes for the elastic scatterings that are calculated in perturbative QCD.
arXiv commentLaTex, 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the 19th international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2006
References in corpus (9)
- HIJING 1.0: A Monte Carlo Program for Parton and Particle Production in High Energy Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions
- Thermalization of gluons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by including three-body interactions in a parton cascade
- pQCD-based Approach to Parton Production and Equilibration in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
- Open Charm Production in an Equilibrating Parton Plasma
- Thermal and Chemical Equilibration in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
- Equilibration of the Gluon-Minijet Plasma at RHIC and LHC
- Studies of parton thermalization at RHIC
- Triple-quark elastic scatterings and thermalization
- qqqbar to qqqbar and qqbarqbar to qqbarqbar Elastic Scatterings and Thermalization of Quark Matter and Antiquark Matter