Quantum Transport Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The problem of thermalization of a quark -- gluon plasma is addressed in the framework of thermal field theory. Within a simple approximation, the full quantum relaxation problem is solved and compared to the Boltzmann solution. Memory effects and a slowdown of the relaxation process are the results, they can be partially described by using a generalized kinetic equation without quasi-particle approximation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9510315,
title = {Quantum Transport Theory},
author = {Peter A. Henning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9510315},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, latex, figures appended as uuencoded postscript, also available at ftp://tpri6c.gsi.de/pub/phenning/dalian95 or at http://www.gsi.de/~phenning/tft.html