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 spatiotemporal evolution of the quark-gluon plasma explored in...

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Hauptverfasser: Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (VerfasserIn) , Berges, Jürgen (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 26 March 2019
In: Physical review letters
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 122, Heft: 12
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.122301
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.122301
Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.122301
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Verfasserangaben:Aleksas Mazeliauskas and Jürgen Berges
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Zusammenfassung: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 spatiotemporal 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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ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.122301