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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Collective non-Abelian instabilities in a melting color glass condensate
Paul Romatschke1, Raju Venugopalan
1Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract:
We present first results for (3 + 1)D simulations of SU(2) Yang-Mills equations for matter expanding into the vacuum after a heavy ion collision. Violations of boost invariance cause a non-Abelian Weibel instability leading soft modes to grow with proper time tau as exp(gamma square root(g2 mu tau)), where g2 mu is a scale arising from the saturation of gluons in the nuclear wave function. The scale for the growth rate gamma is set by a plasmon mass, defined as omega(pl) = kappa0 square root(g2 mu/tau)), generated dynamically in the collision. We compare the numerical ratio gamma/kappa0 to the corresponding value predicted by the hard thermal loop formalism for anisotropic plasmas.
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