Kinetic Equation with Exact Charge Conservation
- 11 June 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (24) , 5438-5441
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.5438
Abstract
A kinetic master equation for multiplicity distributions is formulated for charged particles which are created or destroyed only in pairs due to the conservation of their Abelian charge. It allows one to study time evolution of the multiplicity distributions in a relativistic many-body system with arbitrary average particle multiplicities. It is shown to reproduce the equilibrium results for both canonical (rare particles) and grand canonical (abundant particles) systems. For canonical systems, the equilibrium multiplicity is much lower and the relaxation time is much shorter than the naive extrapolation from grand canonical results. Implications for chemical equilibration in heavy-ion collisions are also discussed.Keywords
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