Parton Equilibration in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
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⚛️ nucl-th
hep-ph
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equilibrationpartoncollisionsheavychemicalcoefficientscolliderconsequences
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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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