Thermal Masses and Equilibrium Rates in the Quark Gluon Phase
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We apply the momentum integrated Boltzmann transport equation to study the time evolution of various quark flavours in the central region of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The effects of thermal masses for quarks and gluons are incorporated to take into account the in-medium properties of these ingredients of the putative quark gluon plasma. We find that even under very optimistic conditions, complete chemical equilibration in the quark gluon plasma appears unlikely.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9612053,
title = {Thermal Masses and Equilibrium Rates in the Quark Gluon Phase},
author = {Jane Alam and Pradip Roy and Sourav Sarkar and Sibaji Raha and Bikash Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9612053},
year = {2009}
}
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