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Gluon production, cooling, and entropy in nuclear collisions

  • J. Letessier
  • , J. Rafelski
  • , A. Tounsi

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Abstract

We study the cooling (heating) of a glue-parton gas due to production (destruction) of particles and determine the associated evolution of entropy. We incorporate sharing of the system energy among a changing number of particles. We find that the entropy of an evolving glue-parton gas hardly changes, once the initial thermalized state has been formed, despite a significant change in particle number and temperature.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)406-409
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume50
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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