'Bottom up' thermalization in heavy ion collisions

R. Baier,A. Mueller,D. Schiff,D. Son

Published 2000 in Physics Letters B

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Abstract We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale Qs is large compared to ΛQCD, thermalization takes place during a time of order α−13/5Qs−1 and the maximal temperature achieved is α2/5Qs.

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