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arxiv: hep-ph/0510121 · v2 · submitted 2005-10-10 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-lat· nucl-th

Collective non-Abelian instabilities in a melting Color Glass Condensate

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keywords gammacollisionkappascalesqrtanisotropicarisingboost
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We present first results for 3+1-D simulations of SU(2) Yang-Mills equations for matter expanding into the vacuum after a heavy ion collision. Violations of boost invariance cause a Weibel instability leading soft modes to grow with proper time $\tau$ as $\exp(\Gamma \sqrt{g^2\mu \tau})$, where $g^2\mu$ is a scale arising from the saturation of gluons in the nuclear wavefunction. The scale for the growth rate $\Gamma$ is set by a plasmon mass, defined as $\omega_{\rm pl}= \kappa_0 \sqrt{\frac{g^2\mu}{\tau}}$, generated dynamically in the collision. We compare the numerical ratio $\Gamma/\kappa_0$ to the corresponding value predicted by the Hard Thermal Loop formalism for anisotropic plasmas.

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