{"arxiv_id":"hep-ph/0412016","title":"Hard-Loop Dynamics of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities","abstract":"Non-Abelian plasma instabilities may be responsible for the fast apparent quark-gluon thermalization in relativistic heavy-ion collisions if their exponential growth is not hindered by nonlinearities. We study the real-time evolution of instabilities in an anisotropic non-Abelian plasma with an SU(2) gauge group in the hard-loop approximation. We find exponential growth of non-Abelian plasma instabilities both in the linear and in the strongly nonlinear regime, with only a brief phase of subexponential behavior in between.","primary_cat":"hep-ph","cross_cats":["nucl-th"],"submitted_at":"2004-12-02T12:04:59+00:00","latest_version":3,"source":"arxiv","source_label":"arXiv","source_url":null,"has_pdf":true,"has_source":false,"verdict":"CONDITIONAL","confidence":"HIGH","one_line_summary":"Non-Abelian plasma instabilities in an anisotropic SU(2) hard-loop plasma continue to grow exponentially in the strongly nonlinear regime, with only a brief subexponential pause.","novelty_score":7.0,"correctness_risk":"medium","formal_verification":"none","upvotes":0,"downvotes":0,"pith_score":0.0,"inbound_count":24,"_links":{"html":"https://pith.science/paper/hep-ph/0412016","verdict":"/api/v1/verdicts/hep-ph/0412016"}}