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  • Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)

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  • Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter created in high-energy collisions.
  • Understanding chemical equilibration in out-of-equilibrium QGP is crucial for interpreting experimental results.

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  • To investigate the timing of chemical equilibration in longitudinally expanding QGP systems.
  • To determine the conditions under which approximate chemical equilibrium is reached.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing the first principles method of QCD effective kinetic theory.
  • Employing calculations accurate at weak coupling and for realistic coupling strengths.

Main Results:

  • Chemical equilibration is found to occur after hydrodynamization but significantly before local thermalization.
  • Hadronic collisions with final state multiplicities dN_{ch}/dη≳10^{2} are estimated to reach approximate chemical equilibrium.

Conclusions:

  • The findings are consistent with the observed saturation of strangeness enhancement across different collision systems (pp, pA, AA).
  • The study provides insights into the dynamic evolution of QGP towards equilibrium.