The Impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization
Aug, 200512 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 10 (2005) 092
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0508223 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BI-TP-2005-30
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Abstract:
QCD plasma instabilities, caused by an anisotropic momentum distributions of the particles in the plasma, are likely to play an important role in thermalization in heavy ion collisions. We consider plasmas with two different components of particles, one strongly anisotropic and one isotropic or nearly isotropic. The isotropic component does not eliminate instabilities but it decreases their growth rates. We investigate the impact of plasma instabilities on the first stage of the ``bottom-up'' thermalization scenario in which such a two-component plasma emerges, and find that even in the case of non-abelian saturation instabilities qualitatively change the bottom-up picture.- scattering: heavy ion
- quantum chromodynamics
- quark gluon: plasma
- plasma: stability
- Vlasov equation: nonabelian
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