Non-equilibrium QCD of high-energy multi-gluon dynamics
Abstract
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I discuss an approach to derive from first principles, a real-time formalism to study the dynamical interplay of quantum and statistical-kinetic properties of non-equilibrium multi-parton systems produced in high-energy QCD processes. The ultimate goal (from which one is still far away) is to have a practically applicable description of the space-time evolution of a general initial system of gluons and quarks, characterized by some large energy or momentum scale, that expands, diffuses and dissipates according to the self- and mutual-interactions, and eventually converts dynamically into final state hadrons. For example, the evolution of parton showers in the mechanism of parton-hadron conversion in high-energy hadronic collisions, or, the description of formation, evolution and freezeout of a quark-gluon plasma, in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
21 pages, Based on invited talk given at the 20th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Non-Perturbative Particle Theory & Experimental tests, Heidelberg, Germany, June 27-29, 1996
21 pages, Based on invited talk given at the 20th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Non-Perturbative Particle Theory & Experimental tests, Heidelberg, Germany, June 27-29, 1996