Successive equilibration in quark-gluon plasma

Journal Article · Mon Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1895· OSTI ID:7004965

Alam, J; Raha, S; Sinha, B ^[1]

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1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta 700 064 (India) Bose Institute, 93/1, A.P.C. Road, Calcutta 700 009 (India) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta 700 064 (India)

A dynamical model has been developed to study the evolution of a quark-gluon system towards equilibrium with the gluons equilibrating prior to the quarks and the quarks executing random Brownian motion in the gluonic heat bath. We estimate the thermalization times for various quark flavors and heavy flavor production rates within this model.

• OSTI ID: 7004965
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 73:14; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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