Early thermalization of quark-gluon matter by elastic 3-to-3 scattering
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-05-13 v1
Abstract
The early thermalization is crucial to the quark-gluon plasma as a perfect liquid and results from many-body scattering. We calculate squared amplitudes for elastic parton-parton-parton scattering in perturbative QCD. Transport equations with the squared amplitudes are established and solved to obtain the thermalization time of initially produced quark-gluon matter and the initial temperature of quark-gluon plasma. We find that the thermalization times of quark matter and gluon matter are different.
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@article{arxiv.1301.2761,
title = {Early thermalization of quark-gluon matter by elastic 3-to-3 scattering},
author = {Xiao-Ming Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2761},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, proceedings for Extreme QCD 2012