A real-time lattice simulation of the thermalization of a gluon plasma: first results

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.07064
• Publication Date: 2016-01-01
• Authors: Maximilian Attems; Owe Philipsen; Christian Schäfer; Björn Wagenbach; Savvas Zafeiropoulos
• Keywords: Thermalisation; Color Glass Condensate; Lattice (music)

To achieve an understanding of the thermalization a quark-gluon plasma, starting from QCD without using model assumptions, is formidable task. We study early stage dynamics relativistic heavy ion collision in framework real time simulations classical Yang-Mills theory static box with color glass condensate as initial condition. Our generalizes previous one by Fukushima and Gelis SU(2) to realistic case SU(3). calculate chromo-electric chromo-magnetic energy densities well ratio longitudinal transverse pressure function probes for thermalization. preliminary results on coarse lattices show occurrence Weibel instabilities prior