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Spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We develop a method to obtain fermion spectral functions non-perturbatively in a non-Abelian gauge theory with high occupation numbers of gauge fields. After recovering the free field case, we extract the spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma close to its non-thermal fixed point, i.e., in a self-similar regime of the non-equilibrium dynamics. We find good agreement with hard loop perturbation theory for medium-induced masses, dispersion relations and quasiparticle residues. We also extract the full momentum dependence of the damping rate of the collective excitations.

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@article{arxiv.2106.11319,
  title  = {Spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma},
  author = {Kirill Boguslavski and Tuomas Lappi and Mark Mace and Sören Schlichting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11319},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures; v2: minor revision, data and plot files attached, published in Phys. Lett. B