  In the spirit of AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the thermalization of a
dual conformal field theory to Gauss-Bonnet gravity by modeling a thin-shell of
dust that interpolates between a pure AdS and a Gauss-Bonnet AdS black brane.
The renormalized geodesic length and minimal area surface, which in the dual
conformal field theory correspond to two-point correlation function and
expectation value of Wilson loop, are investigated respectively as
thermalization probes. The result shows that as the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient
increases, the thermalization time decreases for both the thermalization
probes, which can also be confirmed by studying the motion profile of the
geodesic and minimal area surface. In addition, for both the renormalized
geodesic length and minimal area surface, there is an overlapped region for a
fixed boundary separation, which implies that the Gauss-Bonnet coupling
constant has little effect on the thermalization probes there.
