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Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions

R. Baier, A. H. Mueller, D. Schiff, D. T. Son

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0009237

Abstract

We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale Qs is large compared to ΛQCD, thermalization takes place during a time of order α-13/5Qs-1 and the maximal temperature achieved is α2/5Qs.

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