'Bottom up' thermalization in heavy ion collisions

Sep, 2000
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 502 (2001) 51-58
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale Q s is large compared to Λ QCD , thermalization takes place during a time of order α −13/5 Q s −1 and the maximal temperature achieved is α 2/5 Q s .
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • thermodynamics
  • time dependence
  • Boltzmann equation