Statistical models and thermalization

✍ Scribed by J. Manjavidze; A. Sissakian

• Book ID: 104355060
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 516 KB
• Volume: 117
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)90573-1

✦ Synopsis

The status of thermodynamical approach is discussed. This approach is quiet popular in the heavy ion collision physics. It is argued that the "principle of vanishing of correlations" must be used for quantitative estimations of the rate of thermalization. Existing theoretical models and corresponding generator of events are unable to predict the thermalization phenomenon. A brief review of attendant papers is given.