Results from pQCD for A+A collisions at RHIC & LHC energies

Abstract

This talk will discuss how to compute initial quantites in heavy ion collisions at RHIC (200 AGeV) and at LHC (5500 AGeV) using perturbative QCD (pQCD) by including the next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections and a dynamical determination of the dominant physical scale. The initial numbers are converted into final ones by assuming kinetic thermalization and adiabatic expansion.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 eps-figures, to appear in Proceedings of CIPANP2000, 7th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, May 22-28, 2000, Quebec City