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Effective kinetic description of the expanding overoccupied Glasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-05-24 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We report on a numerical study of the Boltzmann equation including 222\leftrightarrow 2 scatterings of gluons and quarks in an overoccupied Glasma undergoing longitudinal expansion. We find that when a cascade of gluon number to the infrared occurs, corresponding to an infrared enhancement analogous to a transient Bose-Einstein condensate, gluon distributions qualitatively reproduce the results of classical-statistical simulations for the expanding Glasma. These include key features of the distributions that are not anticipated in the "bottom-up" thermalization scenario. We also find that quark distributions, like those of gluons, satisfy self-similar scaling distributions in the overoccupied Glasma. We discuss the implications of these results for a deeper understanding of the self-similarity and universality of parton distributions in the Glasma.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01372,
  title  = {Effective kinetic description of the expanding overoccupied Glasma},
  author = {Naoto Tanji and Raju Venugopalan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01372},
  year   = {2017}
}

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34 pages, 21 figures; version accepted in PRD