%0 Journal Article
%T QCD plasma thermalization, collective flow and extraction of shear viscosity
%A Xu
%A Zhe
%A Greiner
%A Carsten
%A Stoecker
%A Horst
%J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
%D 2008
%I 
%R 10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104016
%X Fast thermalization and elliptic flow of QCD matter found at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are understood as the consequence of perturbative QCD (pQCD) interactions within a (3+1) dimensional parton cascade. The main contributions stem from pQCD-inspired bremsstrahlung. We extract the shear viscosity to entropy ratio, which is between 0.08 and 0.15.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2986