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Title: Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma

Abstract

We perform the first, to our knowledge, classical-statistical real time lattice simulations of topological transitions in the nonequilibrium glasma of weakly coupled but highly occupied gauge fields created immediately after the collision of ultrarelativistic nuclei. Simplifying our description by employing SU(2) gauge fields, and neglecting their longitudinal expansion, we find that the rate of topological transitions is initially strongly enhanced relative to the thermal sphaleron transition rate and decays with time during the thermalization process. Qualitative features of the time dependence of this nonequilibrium transition rate can be understood when expressed in terms of the magnetic screening length, which we also extract nonperturbatively. Furthermore, a detailed investigation of auto-correlation functions of the Chern-Simons number (NCS) reveals non-Markovian features of the evolution distinct from previous simulations of non-Abelian plasmas in thermal equilibrium.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1295208
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1249793
Report Number(s):
BNL-112396-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; R&D Project: KB0301020; KB0301020
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC00112704; SC0012704; DEAC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Mace, Mark, Schlichting, Soren, and Venugopalan, Raju. Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.074036.
Mace, Mark, Schlichting, Soren, & Venugopalan, Raju. Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.074036
Mace, Mark, Schlichting, Soren, and Venugopalan, Raju. Thu . "Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.074036. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1295208.
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title = {Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma},
author = {Mace, Mark and Schlichting, Soren and Venugopalan, Raju},
abstractNote = {We perform the first, to our knowledge, classical-statistical real time lattice simulations of topological transitions in the nonequilibrium glasma of weakly coupled but highly occupied gauge fields created immediately after the collision of ultrarelativistic nuclei. Simplifying our description by employing SU(2) gauge fields, and neglecting their longitudinal expansion, we find that the rate of topological transitions is initially strongly enhanced relative to the thermal sphaleron transition rate and decays with time during the thermalization process. Qualitative features of the time dependence of this nonequilibrium transition rate can be understood when expressed in terms of the magnetic screening length, which we also extract nonperturbatively. Furthermore, a detailed investigation of auto-correlation functions of the Chern-Simons number (NCS) reveals non-Markovian features of the evolution distinct from previous simulations of non-Abelian plasmas in thermal equilibrium.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.93.074036},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 7,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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