Spectral function for overoccupied gluodynamics from real-time lattice simulations
Apr 5, 2018
20 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 1, 014006
- Published: Jul 7, 2018
e-Print:
- 1804.01966 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CERN-TH-2018-075
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Abstract: (APS)
We study the spectral properties of a highly occupied non-Abelian nonequilibrium plasma appearing ubiquitously in weak coupling descriptions of QCD matter. The spectral function of this far-from-equilibrium plasma is measured by employing linear response theory in classical-statistical real-time lattice Yang-Mills simulations. We establish the existence of transversely and longitudinally polarized quasiparticles and obtain their dispersion relations, effective mass, plasmon frequency, damping rate and further structures in the spectral and statistical functions. Our new method can be interpreted as a nonperturbative generalization of hard thermal loop (HTL) effective theory. We see indications that our results approach leading order HTL in the appropriate limit. The method can also be employed beyond the range of validity of HTL.Note:
- 20 pages, 15 figures; v2: published version - references and footnotes added, minor revisions in the Abstract and Secs. III.E and IV
- quantum chromodynamics: matter
- higher-order: 0
- spectral representation
- spectral
- lattice
- plasma
- hard thermal loop approximation
- dispersion relation
- quasiparticle
- weak coupling
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