1995/10/17 by Peter A. Henning, Henning, Peter A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9510315
12 pages, latex, figures appended as uuencoded postscript, also available at ftp://tpri6c.gsi.de/pub/phenning/dalian95 or at http://www.gsi.de/~phenning/tft.html
arxiv created 1995/10/17 · openalex publication_date 1995/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The problem of thermalization of a quark -- gluon plasma is addressed in the framework of thermal field theory. Within a simple approximation, the full quantum relaxation problem is solved and compared to the Boltzmann solution. Memory effects and a slowdown of the relaxation process are the results, they can be partially described by using a generalized kinetic equation without quasi-particle approximation.