Early evolution of transversally thermalized partons
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The idea that the parton system created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions (i) emerges in a state with transverse momenta close to thermodynamic equilibrium and (ii) its evolution at early times is dominated by the 2-dimensional (transverse) hydrodynamics of the ideal fluid is investigated. It is argued that this mechanism may help to solve the problem of early equilibration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.1076,
title = {Early evolution of transversally thermalized partons},
author = {A. Bialas and M. Chojnacki and W. Florkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1076},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
shorter version accepted by Physics Letters B