Collision Thermalization of Nucleons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

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2009-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4171v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys.A24:4437-4456,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

13 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X09044668

We consider a possible mechanism of thermalization of nucleons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our model belongs, to a certain degree, to the transport ones; we investigate the evolution of the system created in nucleus-nucleus collision, but we parametrize this development by the number of collisions of every particle during evolution rather than by the time variable. We based on the assumption that the nucleon momentum transfer after several nucleon-nucleon (-hadron) elastic and inelastic collisions becomes a random quantity driven by a proper distribution. This randomization results in a smearing of the nucleon momenta about their initial values and, as a consequence, in their partial isotropization and thermalization. The trial evaluation is made in the framework of a toy model. We show that the proposed scheme can be used for extraction of the physical information from experimental data on nucleon rapidity distribution.

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