Models chemical non-equilibrium in finite-density QGP under conformal Gubser flow and its impact on hard thermal photon production, finding delayed equilibration with quarks lagging gluons, suppressed total yield but enhanced early high-pT photons, and distinct temporal emission structure.
Chemical Equilibration in Hadronic Collisions
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We study chemical equilibration in out-of-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma using the first principles method of QCD effective kinetic theory, accurate at weak coupling. In longitudinally expanding systems--relevant for relativistic nuclear collisions--we find that for realistic couplings chemical equilibration takes place after hydrodynamization, but well before local thermalization. We estimate that hadronic collisions with final state multiplicities ${dN_\text{ch}}/{d\eta}\gtrsim 10^2$ live long enough to reach approximate chemical equilibrium, which is consistent with the saturation of strangeness enhancement observed in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions.
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Minijet thermalization time in a thermal gluon plasma scales with the jet quenching parameter q-hat once recoiling medium contributions are added to standard transport coefficient definitions.
Box and expanding simulations with SMASH extended to 2-to-3 quark processes show energy spectrum thermalizes by ~0.2 fm/c, momentum isotropizes by ~2 fm/c, but chemical equilibration remains incomplete by 5 fm/c and hydrodynamics breaks down after ~4 fm/c.
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Chemical Equilibration and Thermalization of Quark-Gluon Plasma in a Parton Cascade Model with 2-to-3 Quark Interactions
Box and expanding simulations with SMASH extended to 2-to-3 quark processes show energy spectrum thermalizes by ~0.2 fm/c, momentum isotropizes by ~2 fm/c, but chemical equilibration remains incomplete by 5 fm/c and hydrodynamics breaks down after ~4 fm/c.