Spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma
Jun 21, 2021
13 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 827 (2022) 136963
- Published: Apr 10, 2022
e-Print:
- 2106.11319 [hep-ph]
DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.136963 (publication)
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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
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.Note:
- 13 pages, 6 figures; v2: minor revision, data and plot files attached, published in Phys. Lett. B
- Quark-gluon plasma
- Heavy-ion collisions
- Nonequilibrium QFT
- Thermal QFT
- Spectral function
- Hard-thermal loop
- fermion: spectral representation
- plasma: nonabelian
- excited state: collective
- gauge field theory: nonabelian
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