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- Title
Thermal Masses and Equilibrium Rates in the Quark Gluon Phase.
- Authors
Alam, Jan-E; Roy, Pradip; Sarkar, Sourav; Raha, Sibaji; Sinha, Bikash
- Abstract
We apply the momentum integrated Boltzmann transport equation to study the time evolution of various quark flavors in the central region of ultrarelativistic 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.
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics A: Particles & Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics, 1997, Vol 12, Issue 28, p5151
- ISSN
0217-751X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217751X97002759