Hadron yields in Au + Au/Pb + Pb at RHIC and LHC from thermalized minijets

We calculate the yields of a variety of hadrons for RHIC and LHC energies assuming thermodynamical equilibration of the minijets produced, and using as input results from pQCD for the energy densities at midrapidity. In the calculation of the production of partons and of transverse energy one has to account for nuclear shadowing. By using two parametrizations for the gluon shadowing one derives energy densities differing strongly in magnitude. We link those perturbatively calculated energy densities of partons via entropy conservation in an ideal fluid to the hadron multiplicities at chemical freeze-out.