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Instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

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/0511052,
  title  = {Instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {Stanislaw Mrowczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511052},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

review, 21 pages, new section on various approaches to QGP equilibration