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View SchemaThermalization at RHIC
| Authors | Ulrich W. Heinz |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0407067 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0407067 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1843595 |
| Journal | AIP Conf.Proc.739:163-180,2005 |
Abstract
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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