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K Kajantie

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PubMed2006

Chemical thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

We compute by numerical integration of the Dirac equation the number of quark-antiquark pairs initially produced in the classical color fields of colliding ultrarelativistic nuclei. While the number of pairs is parametrically suppressed in the coupling constant, we find that in this classical field model their production rate is comparable to the thermal ratio of gluons/pairs=9Nf/32. After isotropization one thus would have a quark-gluon plasma in chemical equilibrium.

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PubMed2001

Resumming Long-Distance Contributions to the QCD Pressure.

The strict coupling constant expansion for the free energy of hot QCD plasma shows bad convergence at all reasonable temperatures, and does not agree well with its 4D lattice determination. This has recently led to various refined resummations, whereby the agreement with the lattice result should improve, at the cost of a loss of a formal agreement with the coupling constant expansion and particularly with its large infrared sensitive "long-distance" contributions. We show here how to resum the dominant long-distance effects by using a 3D effective field theory, and determine their magnitude by simple lattice Monte Carlo simulations.

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