Fermion and gluon spectral functions far from equilibrium
Abstract
Motivated by the quark-gluon plasma, we develop a simulation method to obtain the spectral function of (Wilson) fermions non-perturbatively in a non-Abelian gauge theory with large gluon occupation numbers [arXiv:2106.11319]. We apply our method to a non-Abelian plasma close to its non-thermal fixed point, i.e., in a far-from-equilibrium self-similar regime, and find mostly very good agreement with perturbative hard loop (HTL) calculations. For the first time, we extract the full momentum dependence of the damping rate of fermionic collective excitations and compare our results to recent non-perturbative extractions of gluonic spectral functions in two and three spatial dimensions [arXiv:2101.02715, arXiv:1804.01966].
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.00030,
title = {Fermion and gluon spectral functions far from equilibrium},
author = {Kirill Boguslavski and Tuomas Lappi and Sören Schlichting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00030},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures; Talk given at the Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (vConf21), Stavanger, Norway, August 2nd - 6th, 2021