Early thermalization of quark-gluon matter initially created in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions

Xiao-Ming Xu

Published 2013-08-27Version 1

Elastic parton-parton-parton scattering is briefly reviewed and is included in transport equations of quark-gluon matter. We solve the transport equations and get thermal states from initially produced quark-gluon matter. Both gluon matter and quark matter take early thermalization, but gloun matter has a shorter thermalization time than quark matter.