Parton Equilibration in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We investigate the processes leading to phase-space equilibration of parton distributions in nuclear interactions at collider energies. We derive a set of rate equations describing the chemical equilibration of gluons and quarks including medium effects on the relevant QCD transport coefficients, and discuss their consequences for parton equilibration in heavy ion collisions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9303004,
title = {Parton Equilibration in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions},
author = {T. S. Biro and E. van Doorn and B. Mueller and M. H. Thoma and X. N. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9303004},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
18 pages, 6 Figures appended as uuencoded PostScript files, (no changes in the previously submitted manuscript), DUKE-TH-93-46