Minijet initial conditions for non-equilibrium parton evolution at RHIC and LHC

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00080-7MaRDI QIDQ1855600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fred Cooper, Emil Mottola, Gouranga C. Nayak

Publication date 5 February 2003

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210391

zbMATH Keywords

initial-condition parametrizationperturbative QCDsingle particle phase space distribution functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: An important ingredient for the non-equilibrium evolution of partons at RHIC and LHC is to have some physically reasonable initial conditions for the single particle phase space distribution functions for the partons. We consider several plausible parametrizations of initial conditions for the single particle distribution function f_i(x,p) and fix the parameters by matching int f(x,p)p^mu d sigma_mu to the invariant momentum space semi-hard parton distributions obtained using perturbative QCD (pQCD), as well as fitting low order moments of the distribution function. We consider parametrizations of f_i(x,p) with both boost invariant and boost non-invariant assumptions. We determine the initial number density, energy density and the corresponding (effective) temperature of the minijet plasma at RHIC and LHC energies. For a boost non-invariant minijet phase-space distribution function we obtain ~ 30(140) /fm^3 as the initial number density, ~ 50(520) GeV/fm^3 as the initial energy density and ~ 520(930) MeV as the corresponding initial effective temperature at RHIC(LHC).

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