Title: Strangeness Production in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Abstract:Rates are calculated for the processes $\mathrm{gg}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}s\overline{s}$ and $u\overline{u}$,$d\overline{d}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}s\overline{s}$ in highly excited quarkgluon plasma. ...Rates are calculated for the processes $\mathrm{gg}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}s\overline{s}$ and $u\overline{u}$,$d\overline{d}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}s\overline{s}$ in highly excited quarkgluon plasma. For temperature $T>~160$ MeV the strangeness abundance saturates during the lifetime (\ensuremath{\sim}${10}^{\ensuremath{-}23}$ sec) of the plasma created in high-energy nuclear collisions. The chemical equilibration time for gluons and light quarks is found to be less than ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}24}$ sec.Read More
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-04-19
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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