Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):
M. Attems, A. Rebhan, M. Strickland:
"Longitudinal thermalization via the chromo-Weibel instability";
Talk: Conference ``Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum X",
Campus Garching, Muenchen;
2012-10-07
- 2012-10-12.
English abstract:
Non-Abelian plasma instabilities play a crucial role in the non-equilibrium dynamics of a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma. Using the discretized hard loop framework we calculate the time evolution of soft gluonic fields in a longitudinally free streaming background. Extrapolating our results to energies probed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions we find a pressure anisotropy that persists for a few fm/c. However, the chromofields quickly develop a Boltzmann longitudinal energy spectrum suggesting a kind of rapid longitudinal thermalization of the quark gluon plasma despite begin momentum-space anisotropic.
Keywords:
Deconfinement, Heavy Ion Collisions, Instabilities, QCD, Quark-gluon plasma
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_216096.pdf
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