The physics of the quark-gluon plasma

McLerran, Larry

doi:10.1103/revmodphys.58.1021

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“…Due to the confinement free quarks and gluons cannot be detected. The search for QGP has to be carried out by analyzing certain proposed hadronic and electromagnetic signatures [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. However, the possible signatures of the QGP may also come in part from the late time dynamics of a hadron gas formed after the phase transition [9,10,11,12,13,14,15].…”

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Thermalization of gluons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by including three-body interactions in a parton cascade

2005

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We develop a new 3+1 dimensional Monte Carlo cascade solving the kinetic on-shell Boltzmann equations for partons including the inelastic gg ↔ ggg pQCD processes. The back reaction channel is treated -for the first time -fully consistently within this scheme. An extended stochastic method is used to solve the collision integral. The frame dependence and convergency are studied for a fixed tube with thermal initial conditions. The detailed numerical analysis shows that the stochastic method is fully covariant and that convergency is achieved more efficiently than within a standard geometrical formulation of the collision term, especially for high gluon interaction rates. The cascade is then applied to simulate parton evolution and to investigate thermalization of gluons for a central Au+Au collision at RHIC energy. For this study the initial conditions are assumed to be generated by independent minijets with p T > p 0 = 2 GeV. With that choice it is demonstrated that overall kinetic equilibration is driven mainly by the inelastic processes and is achieved on a scale of 1 fm/c. The further evolution of the expanding gluonic matter in the central region then shows almost an ideal hydrodynamical behavior. In addition, full chemical equilibration of the gluons follows on a longer timescale of about 3 fm/c. *

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Thermalization of gluons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by including three-body interactions in a parton cascade

2005

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“…Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions (HIC) provide a unique controllable experimental tool to investigate properties of nuclear matter at high temperature and small baryon density. It is believed that at the Relativistic Heavy Ion collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the quarks and gluons can become deconfined and form hot quark-gluon plasma (QGP) [1,2]. The main target of HIC is to study the equation of state (EoS) and transport properties of hot/dense QCD matter.…”

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Temperature dependent transport coefficients in a dynamical holographic QCD model

Huang

2015

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Abstract:We investigate temperature dependent behavior of various transport coefficients in a dynamical holographical QCD model. We show the nontrivial temperature dependent behavior of the transport coefficients, like bulk viscosity, electric conductivity as well as jet quenching parameter, and it is found that all these quantities reveal information of the phase transition. Furthermore, with introducing higher derivative corrections in 5D gravity, the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio also shows a valley around phase transition, and it is found that the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio times the jet quenching over temperature cubic ratio almost remains as a constant above phase transition, and the value is two times larger than the perturbative result in Phys.Rev. Lett.99.192301(2007).

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“…Here we assume that the known hadronic interactions can be extrapolated to 1 There is a factor 1/ √ 2 because V µ = τ a √ 2 ρ a µ , where a is the isospin index finite temperature and describe the interactions among particles in hot hadronic matter.…”

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Properties of vector mesons at finite temperature: Effective Lagrangian approach

Song

1996

Phys. Rev. D

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The physics of the quark-gluon plasma

Cited by 217 publications

References 156 publications

Thermalization of gluons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by including three-body interactions in a parton cascade

Thermalization of gluons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by including three-body interactions in a parton cascade

Temperature dependent transport coefficients in a dynamical holographic QCD model

Properties of vector mesons at finite temperature: Effective Lagrangian approach

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