Published June 1986
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Journal article
Thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions: Parton cascade approach
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
Description
A parton cascade model is formulated for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The model is used to determine the degree of thermalization, as well as energy and baryon number densities in central collisions of heavy ions at ultrarelativistic energies. It is shown that the energy densities required for quark-gluon plasma formation can easily be reached at √s/sub NN/ less than 100 GeV
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., C
- Journal Volume
- 33
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Phys. Rev., C.
- Journal Page Range
- 2206-2208
- ISSN
- 0556-2813
- CODEN
- PRVCA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17071423
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYON NUMBER; ENERGY DENSITY; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTON MODEL; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK MATTER; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; THERMALIZATION
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SLOWING-DOWN