Minijets in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

Recent results on minijet production in nuclear collisions at the RHIC and LHC energies are reviewed. Initial conditions of the QGP at $\tau =0.1$ fm$/c$, especially parton chemistry, thermalization and net baryon number-to-entropy ratio are discussed. Also, contribution of minijets from a hard BFKL-pomeron ladder will be estimated.

Comments: 10 pages, Talk presented at the Theory Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Brookhaven National Laboratory, July 1996