Visualizing Color Plasma Instabilities
| dc.creator | Strickland, Michael | |
| dc.date | 2005-11-17 | |
| dc.date | 2005-12-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:10:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:10:47Z | |
| dc.description | I discuss recent advances in the understanding of non-equilibrium gauge field dynamics in plasmas which have particle distributions 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. The long-time behavior of such instabilities depends on whether or not the gauge group is abelian or non-abelian. I will report on recent numerical simulations which attempt to determine the long-time behavior of an anisotropic non-abelian plasma within hard-loop effective theory. For novelty I will present an interesting method for visualizing the time-dependence of SU(2) gauge field configurations produced during our numerical simulations. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, 5 figures. Contribution to Proceedings of Workshop on Quark-Gluon-Plasma Thermalization, Vienna, Austria, Aug 10-12. For full resolution images see http://www.fias.uni-frankfurt.de/home/strickland/instability/ | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0511212 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0511212 | |
| dc.identifier | Eur.Phys.J. A29 (2006) 59-63 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1140/epja/i2005-10299-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/171696 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Visualizing Color Plasma Instabilities | |
| dc.type | text |