Parton interaction rates in the quark - gluon plasma

Aug, 1993
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 451-459
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Report number:
  • UGI-93-04

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Abstract:
The transport interaction rates of elastic scattering processes of thermal partons in the quark-gluon plasma are calculated beyond the leading logarithm approximation using the effective perturbation theory for QCD at finite temperatures developed by Braaten and Pisarski. The results for the ordinary and transport interaction rates obtained from the effective perturbation theory are compared to perturbative approximations based on an infrared cut-off by the Debye screening mass. The relevance of those interaction rates for a quark-gluon plasma possibly formed in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are discussed.
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • quark quark: elastic scattering
  • elastic scattering: quark quark
  • model: parton
  • leading logarithm approximation
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • finite temperature
  • transport theory