Speaker
Eero Aleksi Kurkela
(CERN)
Description
It is a commonly held belief that weak coupling dynamics are in contradiction with the apparently fast thermalization observed in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and at the LHC. This belief is based on parametric estimates and naturalness arguments in the Bottom-up picture of thermalization of Baier, Mueller, Schiff, and Son. In my talk, I will discuss elevating this parametric picture into a numerical one through simulations in an effective kinetic theory. I discuss how the numerical factors play an important role and show that the Bottom-Up scenario results in rapid thermalization at realistic couplings.
Author
Eero Aleksi Kurkela
(CERN)
