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Pre-equilibrium evolution of non-abelian plasma

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the production and the equilibration of a non-Abelian qqˉq\bar{q} plasma in an external chromoelectric field, by solving the Boltzmann equation with the non-Abelian features explicitly incorporated. We consider the gauge group SU(2)SU(2) and show that the colour degree of freedom has a major and dominant role in the dynamics of the system. It is seen that the assumption of the so called Abelian dominance is not justified. Finally, it is also shown that many of the features of microscopic studies of the system appear naturally in our studies as well.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610215,
  title  = {Pre-equilibrium evolution of non-abelian plasma},
  author = {G. C. Nayak and V. Ravishankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610215},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex pages 22, figures can be obtained from authors. Submitted to PRD

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