Thermalization of quark-gluon matter by 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings

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Thermalization of quark-gluon matter is studied with a transport equation that includes contributions of 2-to-2 and 3-to-3 elastic scatterings. Thermalization time is related to the squared amplitudes for the elastic scatterings that are calculated in perturbative QCD.
LaTex, 6 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the 19th international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2006

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