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Far-from-equilibrium attractors for massive kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-05 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In this proceedings contribution, we summarize recent findings concerning the presence of early- and late-time attractors in non-conformal kinetic theory. We study the effects of varying both the initial momentum-space anisotropy and initialization times using an exact solution of the 0+1D boost-invariant Boltzmann equation with a mass- and temperature-dependent relaxation time. Our findings support the existence of a longitudinal pressure attractor, but they do not support the existence of distinct attractors for the bulk viscous and shear pressures. Considering a large set of integral moments, we show that for moments with greater than one power of longitudinal momentum squared, both early- and late-time attractors are present.

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@article{arxiv.2312.02007,
  title  = {Far-from-equilibrium attractors for massive kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation},
  author = {Huda Alalawi and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02007},
  year   = {2023}
}

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4 pages, 2figures; Proceedings contribution to Quark Matter 2023, September 3-9 2023, Houston, Texas, USA