Speaker
Luyao Fabian Zhou
(ITP Heidelberg)
Description
We study the equilibration of a high-momentum parton traveling through a Quark-Gluon Plasma using QCD kinetic theory. We show that the energy and particle number is first transported to the soft sector by collinear cascade and then isotropized by elastic scatterings. For a static thermal background we find that the jet wake can be described by a thermal distribution function with angle-dependent temperature, i.e., thermalization in momentum happens before isotropization in angle. We also study the kinetic and chemical equilibration of mini-jets in an expanding QGP and determine the time-scale for the mini-jet to become part of the non-equilibrium background.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Theoretical |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | Other |
Primary author
Luyao Fabian Zhou
(ITP Heidelberg)
Co-authors
Dr
Aleksas Mazeliauskas
(Heidelberg University (DE))
Jasmine Therese Brewer
(CERN)
