Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-05-05 v3 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale is large compared to , thermalization takes place during a time of order and the maximal temperature achieved is .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009237,
title = {Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions},
author = {R. Baier and A. H. Mueller and D. Schiff and D. T. Son},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009237},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 pages; acknowledgement added; section IIIB slightly extended, version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B