Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The initial stage of a relativistic heavy-ion collision can be described by a classical colour 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.
Author: T Lappi
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy
Awards: G338944111, G5292656900, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W2091489842