Entropy Production in High Energy Processes
| dc.creator | Müller, Berndt | |
| dc.creator | Schäfer, Andreas | |
| dc.date | 2003-06-30 | |
| dc.date | 2003-07-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:49:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:49:56Z | |
| dc.description | We calculate the entropy produced in the decoherence of a classical field configuration and compare it with the entropy of a fully thermalized state with the same energy. We find that decoherence alone accounts for a large fraction of the equilibrium entropy when each field mode is only moderately occupied. We apply this to theories of relativistic heavy ion collisions, which describe the initial state as a collection of coherent color fields. Our results suggest that decoherence may partly explain the rapid formation of a high entropy state in these collisions. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306309 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306309 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/42605 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Entropy Production in High Energy Processes | |
| dc.type | text |