Effective kinetic description of the expanding overoccupied glasma

We report on a numerical study of the Boltzmann equation including 2↔2 scatterings of gluons and quarks in an overoccupied glasma undergoing longitudinal expansion. We find that when a cascade of gluon number to the infrared occurs, corresponding to an infrared enhancement analogous to a transient B...

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Hauptverfasser: Tanji, Naoto (VerfasserIn) , Venugopalan, Raju (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 19 May 2017
In: Physical review
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 95, Heft: 9
ISSN:2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094009
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094009
Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094009
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Verfasserangaben:Naoto Tanji, Raju Venugopalan
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Zusammenfassung:We report on a numerical study of the Boltzmann equation including 2↔2 scatterings of gluons and quarks in an overoccupied glasma undergoing longitudinal expansion. We find that when a cascade of gluon number to the infrared occurs, corresponding to an infrared enhancement analogous to a transient Bose-Einstein condensate, gluon distributions qualitatively reproduce the results of classical-statistical simulations for the expanding glasma. These include key features of the distributions that are not anticipated in the “bottom-up” thermalization scenario. We also find that quark distributions, like those of gluons, satisfy self-similar scaling distributions in the overoccupied glasma. We discuss the implications of these results for a deeper understanding of the self-similarity and universality of parton distributions in the glasma.
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ISSN:2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094009