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Chemical composition of the decaying glasma

T. Lappi

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0606090

Abstract

The the initial stage of a relativistic heavy ion collision can be described by a classical color field configuration known as the Glasma. The production of quark pairs from this background field is then computed nonperturbatively by numerically solving the Dirac equation in the classical background. The result seems to point towards an early chemical equilibration of the plasma.

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