Bjorken Flow, Plasma Instabilities, and Thermalization

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2011-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/1108.4684v1

JHEP 1111 (2011) 120

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

22 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP11(2011)120

At asymptotically high energies, thermalization in heavy ion collisions can be described via weak-coupling QCD. We present a complete treatment of how thermalization proceeds, at the parametric weak-coupling level. We show that plasma instabilities dominate the dynamics, from immediately after the collision until well after the plasma becomes nearly in equilibrium. Initially they drive the system close to isotropy, but Bjorken expansion and increasing diluteness makes the system again become more anisotropic. At time \tau ~ \alpha^(-12/5) Q^(-1) the dynamics become dominated by a nearly-thermal bath; and at time \tau ~ \alpha^(-5/2) Q^(-1)$ the bath comes to dominate the energy density, completing thermalization. After this time there is a nearly isotropic and thermal Quark-Gluon Plasma.

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