Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions

preprint2001arXivOpen access

Abstract

We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale QsQ_s is large compared to ΛQCDΛ_{QCD}, thermalization takes place during a time of order α−13/5Qs−1α^{-13/5}Q_s^{-1} and the maximal temperature achieved is α2/5Qsα^{2/5}Q_s.

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