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Abstract
Employing the perturbative QCD inspired parton cascade, we investigate kinetic and
chemical equilibration of the partonic matter created in central heavy ion collisions
at RHIC and LHC energies. Two types of initial conditions are chosen. One is generated
by the model of wounded nucleons using the PYTHIA event generator and Glauber geometry.
Another is considered as a color glass condensate. We show that kinetic equilibration
is almost independent on the chosen initial conditions, whereas there is a sensitive
dependence for chemical equilibration. The time scale of thermalization lies between
1 and 1.5 fm/c. The final parton transverse energy obtained from BAMPS calculations
is compared with the RHIC data and is estimated for the LHC energy.