Lessons from non-Abelian plasma instabilities in two spatial dimensions

Journal Article · Sat Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.76.065012· OSTI ID:21032280

Arnold, Peter; Leang, P -S ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400714 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4714 (United States)

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.

• OSTI ID: 21032280
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.065012; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COUPLING
GAUGE INVARIANCE
INSTABILITY
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
QUARK MATTER
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS