Chromodynamic Weibel instabilities in relativistic nuclear collisions

Details Chromodynamic Weibel instabilities in relativistic nuclear collisions Chromodynamic Weibel instabilities in relativistic nuclear collisions

2003-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0303021v2

Phys.Rev.C68:034909,2003

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

11 pages, RevTex, 13 (e)ps files (revised for PRC)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.68.034909

Employing a previously derived formulation, and extending the treatment from purely transverse modes to wave vectors having a longitudinal component, we discuss the prospects for the occurrence of Weibel-type color-current filamentation in high-energy nuclear collisions. Numerical solutions of the dispersion equation for a number of scenarios relevant to RHIC and LHC suggest that modes with (predominantly transverse) wave numbers of several hundred MeV may become moderately agitated during the early collision stage. The emergence of filamentation helps to speed up the equilibration of the parton plasma and it may lead to non-statistical azimuthal patterns in the hadron final state.

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