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Hard gluon evolution in warming medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-21 v4

Abstract

We describe the energy distribution of hard gluons travelling through a dense quark-gluon plasma whose temperature increases linearly with time, within a probabilistic perturbative approach. The results were applied to the thermalization problem in heavy ion collisions, in the third stage of the bottom-up picture, to estimate the initial time for the third stage of the bottom-up scenario. We then look at the entropy density and average temperature of the soft thermal bath, as the system approaches (local) thermal equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.2103.04135,
  title  = {Hard gluon evolution in warming medium},
  author = {F. G. Ben and M. V. T. Machado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04135},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures; corrected for updated references and acknowledgements

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