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Turbulent thermalization of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the dynamics of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas within the frameworks of classical-statistical lattice gauge-theory and kinetic theory. We focus on a class of systems which are highly occupied, isotropic at all times and initially characterized by a single momentum scale. These represent an idealized version of the situation in relativistic heavy ion-collisions in the color-glass condensate picture, where on a time scale 1/Qs1/Q_s after the collision of heavy nuclei a longitudinally expanding plasma characterized by the saturation scale QsQ_s is formed. Our results indicate that the system evolves according to a turbulent Kolmogorov cascade in the classical regime. Taking this into account, the kinetic description is able to reproduce characteristic features of the evolution correctly.

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@article{arxiv.1207.1450,
  title  = {Turbulent thermalization of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas},
  author = {Soeren Schlichting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1450},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures