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.
