PARTON EQUILIBRATION IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

被引:264
作者
BIRO, TS
VANDOORN, E
MULLER, B
THOMA, MH
WANG, XN
机构
[1] UNIV GIESSEN, INST THEORET PHYS, D-35392 GIESSEN, GERMANY
[2] LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB, DIV NUCL SCI, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 1993年 / 48卷 / 03期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevC.48.1275
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
We investigate the processes leading to phase-space equilibration of parton distributions in nuclear interactions at collider energies. We derive a set of rate equations describing the chemical equilibration of gluons and quarks including medium effects on the relevant QCD transport coefficients, and discuss their consequences for parton equilibration in heavy ion collisions.
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页码:1275 / 1284
页数:10
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