2001/11/19 by K. J. Eskola, K.J. Eskola · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(02)00712-1
published as Nucl.Phys. A702 (2002) 249-258 · 10 pages, 8 figures. Invited talk at the International Conference on Statistical QCD, August 2001, Bielefeld
arxiv created 2001/11/19 · openalex publication_date 2002/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The production of the initial state of the QGP in very high-energy AA collisions is discussed within the framework of perturbative QCD and saturation. The next-to-leading order computation of the transverse energy of minijets is reviewed. Saturation of parton production, conjectured to occur at a dynamically determinable perturbative scale, leads to estimates of the initial densities. The final state multiplicities are predicted by assuming an isentropic hydrodynamical further evolution. Comparison with RHIC data is shown.