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Thermalization of gluon matter including gg<->ggg interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Within a pQCD inspired kinetic parton cascade we simulate the space time evolution of gluons which are produced initially in a heavy ion collision at RHIC energy. The inelastic gluonic interactions ggggggg \leftrightarrow ggg do play an important role: For various initial conditions it is found that thermalization and the close to ideal fluid dynamical behaviour sets in at very early times. Special emphasis is put on color glass condensate initial conditions and the `bottom up thermalization' scenario. Off-equilibrium 323\to 2 processes make up the very beginning of the evolution leading to an initial decrease in gluon number and a temporary avalanche of the gluon momentum distribution to higher transversal momenta.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0609278,
  title  = {Thermalization of gluon matter including gg<->ggg interactions},
  author = {A. El and C. Greiner and Z. Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0609278},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages, 8 figures, Talk given at International Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM 2006), BNL, New York, May 2006