Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Thoughts on early thermalization in AA collisions
and nuclear matter in supercritical fields

Kirill Tuchin

Iowa State University/Riken-Brookhaven Research Center

I argue that particle production in high energy hadron collisions can be considered as a gluon production in background classical field. This allows to derive the produced parton spectrum immediately after the collision and explain its fast thermalization. By comparing the effect of particle production in background fields in QCD, QED and GR we can get a deeper insight into the properties of nuclear matter at high energies.