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Chemical thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions

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arxiv hep-ph/0508229 v2 pith:262H57FO submitted 2005-08-22 hep-ph nucl-th

Chemical thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions

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We compute by numerical integration of the Dirac equation the number of quark-antiquark pairs initially produced in the classical color fields of colliding ultrarelativistic nuclei. While the number of qqbar pairs is parametrically suppressed in the coupling constant, we find that in this classical field model their production rate is comparable to the thermal ratio of gluons/pairs = 9 N_f/32. After isotropization one thus would have quark-gluon plasma in chemical equilibrium.

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