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Equilibration of weakly coupled QCD plasmas

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arxiv 2012.09079 v1 pith:UIHO2HIX submitted 2020-12-16 hep-ph nucl-th

Equilibration of weakly coupled QCD plasmas

Xiaojian Du , S\"oren Schlichting This is my paper
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We employ a non-equilibrium Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) kinetic description to study the kinetic and chemical equilibration of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at weak coupling. Based on our numerical framework, which explicitly includes all leading order processes involving light flavor degrees of freedom, we investigate the thermalization process of homogeneous and isotropic plasmas far-from equilibrium and determine the relevant time scales for kinetic and chemical equilibration. We further simulate the longitudinally expanding pre-equilibrium plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at zero and non-zero density of the conserved charges and study its microscopic and macroscopic evolution towards equilibrium.

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