Unstable Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC
Nuclear Theory
2008-12-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Coupling of the quark-gluon plasma from the early stage of heavy-ion collisions is argued to be weaker at LHC than at RHIC. For this reason, the role of instabilities - the pre-equilibrium plasma is unstable with respect to chromomagnetic modes - will be enhanced. The instabilities isotropize the system and speed up the process of equilibration. A possibility to observe direct signals of the instabilities is considered.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0804.0275,
title = {Unstable Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC},
author = {Stanislaw Mrowczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0275},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Presented at Cracow Epiphany Conference on LHC Physics, Cracow, Poland, January 4-6, 2008; 8 pages, minor corrections