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the production rates R$_{gg}$$_{→}$$_{ggg}$ are almost the same in both cases, the chemical equilibration of the system with d$_{G}$ = 40 proceeds always behind the process in the system with d$_{G}$ = 16. 

The production of more particles from the same energy content leads to a smaller tem- perature at the (chemical) freeze-out. This clearly relates the softening of the transverse spectrum dN/ ( p$_{T}$dp$_{T}$dy ) shown in Fig. 6 as an example for most central collisions. Both re- sults of the mean transverse momenta and the transverse momentum spectrum come closer to the experimental data [31, 32], if the effective quark degrees of freedom are included into the parton cascade calculations. 

On the one hand, the p$_{T}$ averaged elliptic flow v$_{2}$ is almost unchanged, when enlarging d$_{G}$ from 16 to 40. On the other hand, the slope of the transverse momentum spectrum increases due to the production of more particles with larger d$_{G}$ . Thus, there must be a simultaneous change in the differential elliptic flow v$_{2}$ ( p$_{T}$ ), because v$_{2}$ = ∫ dp$_{T}$ v$_{2}$ ( p$_{T}$ ) dN/N/dp$_{T}$ . The change of v$_{2}$ ( p$_{T}$ ) is shown in Fig. 7 for the most central 50% collisions and in Fig. 8 for the mid-central class. The dotted curves are just the dashed curves times an effective factor, which enhances the p$_{T}$ averaged v$_{2}$ values of the calculations with d$_{G}$ = 40 to be equal with 

