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Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions

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arxiv hep-ph/0009237 v3 pith:X7MAG3WY submitted 2000-09-20 hep-ph nucl-th

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We describe how thermalization occurs in heavy ion collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD. When the saturation scale $Q_s$ is large compared to $\Lambda_{QCD}$, thermalization takes place during a time of order $\alpha^{-13/5}Q_s^{-1}$ and the maximal temperature achieved is $\alpha^{2/5}Q_s$.

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