Chemical composition of the decaying glasma
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The the initial stage of a relativistic heavy ion collision can be described by a classical color field configuration known as the Glasma. The production of quark pairs from this background field is then computed nonperturbatively by numerically solving the Dirac equation in the classical background. The result seems to point towards an early chemical equilibration of the plasma.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606090,
title = {Chemical composition of the decaying glasma},
author = {T. Lappi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606090},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures, invited talk at Stangeness in Quark Matter 2006 (SQM06), UCLA, March 2006