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- Title
Thermalization of gluons at RHIC: Dependence on initial conditions.
- Authors
Xu, Z.; Greiner, C.
- Abstract
We investigate how thermalization of gluons depends on the initial conditions assumed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. The study is based on simulations employing the pQCD inspired parton cascade solving the Boltzmann equation for gluons. We consider independently produced minijets with pT > p0 = 1.3-2.0 GeV and a color glass condensate as possible initial conditions for the freed gluons. It turns out that full kinetic equilibrium is achieved slightly sooner in denser systems and its timescale tends to saturate. Compared with the kinetic equilibration we find a stronger dependence of chemical equilibration on the initial conditions.
- Subjects
GLUONS; THERMAL neutrons; PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); NUCLEAR reactors; QUARKS; IONS
- Publication
European Physical Journal A -- Hadrons & Nuclei, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1434-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epja/i2005-10294-8