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Thermal Masses and Equilibrium Rates in the Quark Gluon Phase

Jane Alam, Pradip Roy, Sourav Sarkar, Sibaji Raha, Bikash Sinha

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9612053

Abstract

We apply the momentum integrated Boltzmann transport equation to study the time evolution of various quark flavours in the central region of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The effects of thermal masses for quarks and gluons are incorporated to take into account the in-medium properties of these ingredients of the putative quark gluon plasma. We find that even under very optimistic conditions, complete chemical equilibration in the quark gluon plasma appears unlikely.

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