Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-06-24
Phys.Rev. C71 (2005) 064901
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
121 pages with 55 figures, revised version. Two eps-figures and comments are added. Formula (54) which has typo in journal ver
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.71.064901
We develop a new 3+1 dimensional Monte Carlo cascade solving the kinetic on-shell Boltzmann equations for partons including the inelastic gg <-> ggg pQCD processes. The back reaction channel is treated -- for the first time -- fully consistently within this scheme. An extended stochastic method is used to solve the collision integral. The frame dependence and convergency are studied for a fixed tube with thermal initial conditions. The detailed numerical analysis shows that the stochastic method is fully covariant and that convergency is achieved more efficiently than within a standard geometrical formulation of the collision term, especially for high gluon interaction rates. The cascade is then applied to simulate parton evolution and to investigate thermalization of gluons for a central Au+Au collision at RHIC energy. For this study the initial conditions are assumed to be generated by independent minijets with p_T > p_0=2 GeV. With that choice it is demonstrated that overall kinetic equilibration is driven mainly by the inelastic processes and is achieved on a scale of 1 fm/c. The further evolution of the expanding gluonic matter in the central region then shows almost an ideal hydrodynamical behavior. In addition, full chemical equilibration of the gluons follows on a longer timescale of about 3 fm/c.
Greiner Carsten
Xu Zhe
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