Structure of chromomagnetic fields in the glasma
arXiv:1407.8549 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.08.007
Abstract
The initial stage of a heavy ion collision is dominated by nonperturbatively strong chromoelectric and -magnetic fields. The spatial Wilson loop provides a gauge invariant observable to probe the dynamics of the longitudinal chromomagnetic field. We discuss recent results from a real time lattice calculation of the area-dependence of the expectation value of the spatial Wilson loop. We show that at relatively early times after the collision, a universal scaling as a function of the area emerges at large distances for very different initial conditions, with a nontrivial critical exponent. A similar behavior has earlier been seen in calculations of the gluon transverse momentum spectrum, which becomes independent of the initial spectrum of gauge fields. We also show the distribution of eigenvalues of the spatial Wilson loop and the fluctuations of its real and imaginary parts.
4 pages, 3 figures, talk by TL at the Quark Matter 2014 conference, Darmstadt, Germany, May 19-24
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