dc.creator | Fries, Rainer J. | |
dc.creator | Mueller, Berndt | |
dc.creator | Schaefer, Andreas. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-13T21:26:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-13T21:26:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rainer J. Fries, Berndt Mueller and Andreas Schaefer. Phys.Rev.C 79 034904 2009. "Copyright (2009) by the American Physical Society." | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.034904 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/127074 | |
dc.description | Journals published by the American Physical Society can be found at http://publish.aps.org/ | en |
dc.description.abstract | Short thermalization times of less than 1 fm/c for quark and gluon matter have been suggested by recent experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. It has been difficult to justify this rapid thermalization in first-principle calculations based on perturbation theory or the color glass condensate picture. Here, we address the related question of the decoherence of the gluon field, which is a necessary component of thermalization. We present a simplified leading-order computation of the decoherence time of a gluon ensemble subject to an incoming flux of Weizsacker-Williams gluons. We also discuss the entropy produced during the decoherence process and its relation to the entropy in the final state that has been measured experimentally. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.subject | HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS | en |
dc.subject | QUARK-GLUON PLASMA | en |
dc.subject | QUANTUM DECOHERENCE | en |
dc.subject | ELLIPTIC | en |
dc.subject | FLOW | en |
dc.subject | HIGH-ENERGY | en |
dc.subject | SMALL X | en |
dc.subject | THERMALIZATION | en |
dc.subject | COLLABORATION | en |
dc.subject | EQUILIBRATION | en |
dc.subject | SATURATION | en |
dc.subject | Physics | en |
dc.title | Decoherence and entropy production in relativistic nuclear collisions | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |