Nonabelian plasma instabilities in Bjorken expansion
arXiv:0810.2805 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.01.031
Abstract
Plasma instabilities are parametrically the dominant nonequilibrium dynamics of a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma. In recent years the time evolution of the corresponding collective colour fields has been studied in stationary anisotropic situations. Here I report on recent numerical results on the time evolution of the most unstable modes in a longitudinally expanding plasma as they grow from small rapidity fluctuations to amplitudes where non-Abelian self-interactions become important.
4 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at SEWM 2008, August 26-29, Amsterdam
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