Thermalization at RHIC

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2004-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0407067v2

AIP Conf.Proc.739:163-180,2005

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

Erroneous formulation on p.2 corrected. 16 pages, incl. 4 postscript figures. Invited talk presented at HADRON-RANP 2004 (IX H

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1843595

Ideal hydroynamics provides an excellent description of all aspects of the single-particle spectra of all hadrons with transverse momenta below about 1.5-2 GeV/c at RHIC. This is shown to require rapid local thermalization at a time scale below 1 fm/c and at energy densities which exceed the critical value for color deconfinement by an order of magnitude. The only known thermalized state at such energy densities is the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The rapid thermalization indicates that the QGP is a strongly interacting liquid rather than the weakly interacting gas of quarks and gluons that was previously expected.

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