Spectral function of fermions in a highly occupied non-Abelian plasma

Jun 21, 2021
13 pages
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  • Phys.Lett.B 827 (2022) 136963
  • Published: Apr 10, 2022
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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.
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  • 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