Speaker
Marco Ruggieri
Description
"In this talk, I discuss the equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma produced by ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. In particular, starting from initial conditions which are highly anysotropic and far from equilibrium which are then evolved by means of
simulation code based on the relativistic transport Boltzmann equation, I discuss the mechanical equilibration, namely the
isotropization of longitudinal and transverse pressures, and the chemical equilibration, namely the evolution of the system from a pure glue ensemble to a quark-gluon mixture via inelastic QCD
processes. For the latter the role of the quasiparticle nature of quarks and gluons for temperatures not too close to the critical temperature will be emphasized."
Primary author
Marco Ruggieri
