The Fate of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in 3+1 Dimensions

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dc.creatorArnold, Peter
dc.creatorMoore, Guy D.
dc.creatorYaffe, Laurence G.
dc.date2005-05-25
dc.date2005-09-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:26:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:26:41Z
dc.descriptionPlasma instabilities can play a fundamental role in plasma equilibration. There are similarities and differences between plasma instabilities in abelian and non-abelian gauge theories. In particular, it has been an open question whether non-abelian self-interactions are the limiting factor in the growth of non-abelian plasma instabilities. We study this problem with 3+1 dimensional numerical simulations. We find that non-abelian plasma instabilities behave very differently from abelian ones once they grow to be non-perturbatively large, in contrast with earlier results of 1+1 dimensional simulations. In particular, they grow more slowly at late times, with linear rather than exponential dependence of magnetic energy on time.
dc.description28 pages, 22 figures [minor changes incorporated (including some minor typo fixes) to correspond to journal version]
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0505212
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0505212
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D72:054003,2005
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.054003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/195910
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleThe Fate of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in 3+1 Dimensions
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