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Apparent Thermalization due to Plasma Instabilities in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
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Hydrodynamical modeling of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC suggests that the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) "thermalizes" in a remarkably short time scale, about 0.6 fm/c. We argue that this should be viewed as indicating fast isotropization, but not necessarily complete thermalization, of the nonequilibrium QGP. Non-Abelian plasma instabilities can drive local isotropization of an anisotropic QGP on a time scale which is faster than ordinary perturbative scattering processes. As a result, we argue that theoretical expectations based on weak-coupling analysis are not necessarily in conflict with hydrodynamic modeling of the early part of RHIC collisions, provided one recognizes the key role of non-Abelian plasma instabilities.
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- Authors
- Arnold, P., Lenaghan, J., Moore, G. D., & Yaffe, L. G.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-02-23
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 072302-072302
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2050955554
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- 231
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- 13.73
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- en
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