Gluon production, cooling and entropy in nuclear collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the cooling (heating) of a glue-parton gas due to production (destruction) of particles and determine the associated production of entropy. We incorporate sharing of the system energy among a changing number of particles. We find that the entropy of an evolving glue-parton gas changes in an insignificant range once the initial high temperature state has been formed, despite a great change in particle number and temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9711346,
title = {Gluon production, cooling and entropy in nuclear collisions},
author = {Jean Letessier and Johann Rafelski and Ahmed Tounsi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9711346},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Replaced for bad printing on US paper. 7 pages, LaTeX, 4 postscript figures