[Submitted on 1 Jan 2019]
Comments on the chemical and kinetic equilibration in heavy ion collisions
I argue that perturbative scattering of quarks and gluons are incompatible with lattice and heavy ion data on QGP properties. The non-perturbative mechanisms for quasiparticle rescattering and quark production are briefly discussed, as well as experiments needed to measure matter anisotropy and quark density at early stages of the collisions.
- Subjects:
- Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph)
- arXiv:
- 1901.00178 [pdf]