Thermalization and plasma instabilities

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2006-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0608173v1

Nucl.Phys.A785:50-57,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Strong & Electroweak Matter 2006, Brook

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.132

I 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.

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