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A real-time lattice simulation of the thermalization of a gluon plasma: first results
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To achieve an understanding of the thermalization of a quark-gluon plasma, starting from QCD without using model assumptions, is a formidable task. We study the early stage dynamics of a relativistic heavy-ion collision in the framework of real-time simulations of the classical Yang-Mills theory in a static box with the color glass condensate as an initial condition. Our study generalizes a previous one by Fukushima and Gelis from SU(2) to the realistic case of SU(3). We calculate the chromo-electric and chromo-magnetic energy densities as well as the ratio of longitudinal and transverse pressure as a function of time as probes for thermalization. Our preliminary results on coarse lattices show the occurrence of Weibel instabilities prior to thermalization.
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ATTEMS, Maximilian, et al. A real-time lattice simulation of the thermalization of a gluon plasma: first results. Acta Physica Polonica B. 2016. Vol. 9, num. 3, pags. 603-608. ISSN 0587-4254. [consulted: 5 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/146668