Thermalization and plasma instabilities

dc.creatorStrickland, Michael
dc.date2006-08-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:05:29Z
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dc.descriptionI review recent analytical and numerical advances in the study of non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma physics. I concentrate on studies of the dynamics of plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas such anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse (chromo)-magnetic fields at short times. Parametrically the instabilities provide the fastest method for generation of soft background fields and dominate the short-time dynamics of the system.
dc.description8 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Strong & Electroweak Matter 2006, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 2006
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0608173
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0608173
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.A785:50-57,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.132
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189219
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleThermalization and plasma instabilities
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