Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-07-15
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 074509
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 8 eps figures, added references, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.074509
We perform SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory simulations of the deconfinement transition attempting to mimic conditions encountered in heavy ion collisions. Specifically, we perform a sudden temperature quench across the deconfinement temperature, and follow the response of the system in successive simulation sweeps under spatial lattice expansion and temperature fall-off. In measurements of the Polyakov loop and structure functions a robust strong signal of global instability response is observed through the exponential growth of low momentum modes. Development of these long range modes isotropizes the system which reaches thermalization shortly afterwards, and enters a stage of quasi-equilibrium expansion and cooling till its return to the confinement phase. The time scale characterizing full growth of the long range modes is largely unaffected by the conditions of spatial expansion and temperature variation in the system, and is much shorter than the scale set by the interval to return to the confinement phase. The wide separation of these two scales is such that it naturally results in isotropization times well inside 1 fm/c.
Tomboulis E. T.
Velytsky Alexander
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