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EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on "Thermalization in Non-abelian Plasmas"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Recently, different proposals have been put forward on how thermalization proceeds in heavy-ion collisions in the idealized limit of very large nuclei at sufficiently high energy. Important aspects of the parametric estimates at weak coupling may be tested using well-established classical-statistical lattice simulations of the far-from-equilibrium gluon dynamics. This has to be confronted with strong coupling scenarios in related theories based on gauge-string dualities. Furthermore, closely related questions about far-from-equilibrium dynamics arise in early-universe cosmology and in non-relativistic systems of ultracold atoms. These were central topics of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force meeting held on December 12-14, 2011, at the University of Heidelberg, which we report on.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2042,
  title  = {EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on "Thermalization in Non-abelian Plasmas"},
  author = {Juergen Berges and Jean-Paul Blaizot and Francois Gelis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2042},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, summary of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on "Thermalization in Non-abelian Plasmas", December 12-14, 2011, University of Heidelberg, Germany