Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities for Extreme Anisotropy
arXiv:0706.0490 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.045009
Abstract
Thermalization of quark-gluon plasmas in heavy-ion collisions is a difficult theoretical problem. One theoretical goal has been to understand the physics of thermalization in the relatively simplifying limit of arbitrarily high energy collisions, where the running coupling alpha_s is weak. One of the current roadblocks to achieving this goal is lack of knowledge about the behavior of plasma instabilities when particle distributions are highly anisotropic. In particular, it has not been known how the magnetic fields generated by plasma instabilities scale with anisotropy. In this paper, we use numerical simulations in a first attempt to determine this scaling.
29 pages, 17 figures
References in corpus (24)
- Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions
- Collective Modes of an Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma
- Effective Kinetic Theory for High Temperature Gauge Theories
- QCD Plasma Instabilities and Bottom-Up Thermalization
- Collective modes of an Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma II
- Collective non-Abelian instabilities in a melting Color Glass Condensate
- The Unstable Glasma
- Hard-Loop Dynamics of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities
- Chern-Simons Number Diffusion and Hard Thermal Loops on the Lattice
- Hard Loop Approach to Anisotropic Systems
- Dynamics of Quark-Gluon-Plasma Instabilities in Discretized Hard-Loop Approximation
- The Fate of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in 3+1 Dimensions
- Hard-Loop Effective Action for Anisotropic Plasmas
- QCD Plasma Instabilities: The Nonabelian Cascade
- Color filamentation in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
- The turbulent spectrum created by non-Abelian plasma instabilities
- Plasma Instabilities in an Anisotropically Expanding Geometry
- QCD Plasma Instabilities and Isotropization
- Non-abelian plasma instabilities for strong anisotropy
- The Abelianization of QCD Plasma Instabilities
- Ultraviolet avalanche in anisotropic non-Abelian plasmas
- On Kolmogorov Wave Turbulence in QCD
- The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization
- Lessons from Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in Two Spatial Dimensions
Cited by in corpus (33)
- Color Glass Condensate and Glasma
- Instabilities of an anisotropically expanding non-Abelian plasma: 1D+3V discretized hard-loop simulations
- Pre-equilibrium dilepton production from an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma
- Turbulence in nonabelian gauge theory
- Simulating plasma instabilities in SU(3) gauge theory
- Quarkonium dissociation in the presence of a small momentum space anisotropy
- Instabilities of an anisotropically expanding non-Abelian plasma: 3D+3V discretized hard-loop simulations
- Non-Abelian plasma instabilities: SU(3) vs. SU(2)
- Fluctuations of the initial color fields in high energy heavy ion collisions
- Low-cost fermions in classical field simulations
- Instability induced pressure isotropization in a longitudinally expanding system
- Color Glass Condensate and Glasma
- Suppression of forward dilepton production from an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma
- Collective modes and instabilities in anisotropically expanding ultarelativistic plasmas
- Renormalised nonequilibrium quantum field theory: scalar fields
- Heavy Quark Thermalization in Classical Lattice Gauge Theory: Lessons for Strongly-Coupled QCD
- Initial state and thermalization in the Color Glass Condensate framework
- Kinetic evolution of the glasma and thermalization in heavy ion collisions
- Modified Kolmogorov Wave Turbulence in QCD matched onto "Bottom-up" Thermalization
- Thermalization of Color Gauge Fields in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
- Photons from thermalizing matter in heavy ion collisions
- Next-to-leading order static gluon self-energy for anisotropic plasmas
- Meson turbulence at quark deconfinement from AdS/CFT
- Thermodynamics and phase diagram of anisotropic Chern-Simons deformed gauge theories
- Fluctuations driven isotropization of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions
- A Note on Schwinger Mechanism and a Nonabelian Instability in a Nonabelian Plasma
- A non-perturbative study of the evolution of cosmic magnetised sources
- On the imaginary part of the next-to-leading-order static gluon self-energy in an anisotropic plasma
- Collision Thermalization of Nucleons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
- What the inflaton might tell us about RHIC/LHC
- Chaotic thermalization in Yang-Mills-Higgs theory on a spacial lattice
- The chromo-Weibel instability in an expanding background
- Unstable dynamics of Yang-Mills fields at early times of heavy ion collisions