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Parton rearrangement and fast thermalization in heavyion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies

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The implications of parton rearrangement processes on the dynamics of ultra-relativistic heavyion collisions have been investigated. A microscopic transport approach, namely the quark gluon string model (QGSM) which has been extended for a locally density-dependent partonic rearrangement and fusion procedure served as the tool for this investigations. The model emulates effectively the dynamics of a strongly coupled quark plasma and final hadronic interactions. Main QGSM results on anisotropic flow components v 1 and v 2 at top RHIC energy are compiled. Predictions for the pseudorapidity dependence of directed and elliptic flow in Pb+Pb collisions under LHC conditions are presented.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    G. Burau

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Eberhard Karls Universität, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

    J. Bleibel & C. Fuchs

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Burau, G., Bleibel, J. & Fuchs, C. Parton rearrangement and fast thermalization in heavyion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. Indian J Phys 84, 1777–1781 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-010-0172-2

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