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Non-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-08-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing 0+1d Bjorken expansion which goes beyond the energy-momentum tensor to the detailed form of the one-particle distribution function. We then demonstrate that the dynamics can be re-scaled at intermediate times and represented by universal exponents. Finally, we assess different procedures for reconstructing the full one-particle distribution function from the energy-momentum tensor along the attractor and discuss implications for the freeze-out procedure used in the phenomenological analysis of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions

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@article{arxiv.2208.00513,
  title  = {Non-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas},
  author = {Dekrayat Almaalol and Kirill Boguslavski and Aleksi Kurkela and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.00513},
  year   = {2022}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.05195

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