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Thermalization of quark-gluon matter by 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings

Xiao-Ming Xu

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0702036

Abstract

Thermalization of quark-gluon matter is studied with a transport equation that includes contributions of 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings. Thermalization time is related to the squared amplitudes for the elastic scatterings that are calculated in perturbative QCD.

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