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Spherically symmetric quark-gluon plasma field configurations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study field configurations in a hot quark-gluon plasma with spherical symmetry. We show that the electric fields point into radial direction and solve the effective non-abelian equations of motions. The corresponding charge density has a localized contribution which has a gauge invariant interpretation as a pointlike color charge. We discuss configurations oscillating periodically in time. Furthermore, we calculate the electric field induced by a constant local charge that is removed from the plasma for t>0t>0 as a model of a decaying heavy quark.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9509218,
  title  = {Spherically symmetric quark-gluon plasma field configurations},
  author = {Herbert Nachbagauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9509218},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures, styles: revtex, amsfonts, amsmath, epsf