2021/09/18 by Zhengyu Chen, Chen, Zhengyu
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.08887
new discussion on the infinite terms; Sec.III, Subsection B deleted; references updated. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.02495 by other authors
openalex publication_date 2021/09/18 · arxiv created 2022/02/06 · arxiv updated 2022/02/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work, the role of inelastic processes in the formation of a transient Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is investigated based on kinetic theory. We calculate the condensation rate for an overpopulated gluon system which is assumed to be in thermal equilibrium and with the presence of a BEC. The matrix elements of the inelastic processes are chosen as the isotropic one and the gluons are considered to have a finite mass. Our calculations indicate that the inelastic processes can hinder the formation of a BEC since the negatively infinite net condensation rate can destroy any BEC instantly.