Back-reaction in the presence of thermalizing collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Preequilibrium parton production following an ultrarelativistic nucleus--nucleus collision is studied in terms of the decay of a strong chromoelectric field which generates pairs through the Schwinger mechanism. Back-reaction of the partons with the field is included and a model transport equation containing a collision term is solved for the central rapidity region based on an approximation in which the partons relax to a thermal distribution.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609205,
title = {Back-reaction in the presence of thermalizing collisions},
author = {J. M. Eisenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609205},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Nine pages plus two figures; added note concerning earlier work by B. Banerjee, R.S. Bhalerao, and V. Ravishankar