Prescaling and far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamics in the quark-gluon plasma
Prescaling is a far-from-equilibrium phenomenon which describes the rapid establishment of a universal scaling form of distributions much before the universal values of their scaling exponents are realized. We consider the example of the spatio-temporal evolution of the quark-gluon plasma explored i...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Arxiv
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10554
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| Author Notes: | Aleksas Mazeliauskas and Jürgen Berges |
| Summary: | Prescaling is a far-from-equilibrium phenomenon which describes the rapid establishment of a universal scaling form of distributions much before the universal values of their scaling exponents are realized. We consider the example of the spatio-temporal evolution of the quark-gluon plasma explored in heavy-ion collisions at sufficiently high energies. Solving QCD kinetic theory with elastic and inelastic processes, we demonstrate that the gluon and quark distributions very quickly adapt a self-similar scaling form, which is independent of initial condition details and system parameters. The dynamics in the prescaling regime is then fully encoded in a few time-dependent scaling exponents, whose slow evolution gives rise to far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic behavior. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |