Published July 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Gluon production, cooling, and entropy in nuclear collisions

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies, Universite Paris 7, Tour 24, 5e et., 2 Place Jussieu, F-75251 Paris CEDEX 05 (France)

Description

We study the cooling (heating) of a glue-parton gas due to production (destruction) of particles and determine the associated evolution of entropy. We incorporate sharing of the system energy among a changing number of particles. We find that the entropy of an evolving glue-parton gas hardly changes, once the initial thermalized state has been formed, despite a significant change in particle number and temperature

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
50
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 406-409.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN