QCD Matter Thermalization at RHIC and LHC

Understand

Employing the perturbative QCD inspired parton cascade, we investigate kinetic and chemical equilibration of the partonic matter created in central heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies.

• Two types of initial conditions are chosen.
• One is generated by the model of wounded nucleons using the PYTHIA event generator and Glauber geometry.
• Another is considered as a color glass condensate.