Out-of-Equilibrium Collinear Enhanced Equilibration in the Bottom-Up Thermalization Scenario in Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

Experimental measurement of the elliptic flow parameter $v_2$ and hydrodynamic model together showed that thermalization in the central region at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to be perplexingly fast. This is a mystery in itself since none of the numerical perturbative QCD models are able to achieve such a feat. By exploiting a theoretical oversight on collinear processes in an out-of-equilibrium system it is argued that, in the bottom-up thermalization scenario, equilibration can proceed at a higher rate than what is expected in the conventional perturbative QCD picture.