Gluon production, cooling, and entropy in nuclear collisions
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 50 (1) , 406-409
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.50.406
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.Keywords
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