Lessons from Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in Two Spatial Dimensions

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2007-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3996v1

Phys.Rev.D76:065012,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.065012

Plasma instabilities can play a fundamental role in quark-gluon plasma equilibration in the high energy (weak coupling) limit. Early simulations of the evolution of plasma instabilities in non-abelian gauge theory, performed in one spatial dimension, found behavior qualitatively similar to traditional QED plasmas. Later simulations of the fully three-dimensional theory found different behavior, unlike traditional QED plasmas. To shed light on the origin of this difference, we study the intermediate case of two spatial dimensions. Depending on how the "two-dimensional'' theory is formulated, we can obtain either behavior.

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