Early stage thermalization via instabilities
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-03-31 v1
Abstract
Due to anisotropic momentum distributions the parton system produced at the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is unstable with respect to the magnetic plasma modes. The instabilities isotropize the system and thus speed up the process of its equilibration. The whole scenario of the instabilities driven isotropization is reviewed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0611067,
title = {Early stage thermalization via instabilities},
author = {Stanislaw Mrowczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0611067},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
23 pages, review presented at the workshop `Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement' July 3-6, 2006, Florence