Quark Gluon Plasma Diagnostics in a Successive Equilibrium Scenario.pdf

June 1997 Quark Gluon Plasma Diagnostics in a Successive Equilibrium Scenario a a a a,b Pradip Roy , Jan-e Alam , Sourav Sarkar Bikash Sinhar , and Sibaji Rahac 7 a) Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta 700 064, INDIA. 9 b) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Calcutta 700 064, INDIA. 9 1 c) Bose Institute, 93/1 A. P. C. Road, Calcutta 700 009, INDIA. n u J Abstract 6 1 The relativistic Fokker Planck equation has been used to study the evolution of 1 the quark distribution in the quark gluon phase expected to be formed in ultra- v 4 relativistic heavy ion collisions. The effect of thermal masses for quarks and gluons 3 is incorporated to take account of the in-medium properties. We find that the kinetic 0 6 equilibrium is achieved before the system reaches the critical temperature of quark 0 hadron phase transition. We find that chemical equilibrium is not achieved during 7 9 this time. We have evaluated the electromagnetic probes of quark gluon plasma / from the non-equilibrated quark gluon phase and compared them with those in h t- completely equilibrated scenario. The hard QCD production rates for the electro- l magnetic ejectiles as well as the heavy quark production rates are also calculat