Quasiparticle description of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma

Paul Romatschke

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Quasiparticle description of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma

Paul Romatschke

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 11 Dec 2003

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The authors' main claim It is shown that systems with anisotropic momentum-space distributions contain unstable modes in addition to the stable quasiparticle modes, which may be of great importance for the dynamical evolution of an incompletely thermalized quark-gluon plasma.

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The collective modes of QCD at temperatures and densities above its phase-transition are analyzed for isotropic systems as well as for systems having an anisotropy in momentum-space using the HTL approximation. For isotropic systems, results for the thermodynamic pressure and entropy at finite densities based on a phenomenological description of lattice calculations at vanishing densities are derived and compared to those following from different methods. From the resulting equation of state the mass-radius relationship of so-called quark-stars and other applications are investigated. It is shown that systems with anisotropic momentum-space distributions contain unstable modes in addition to the stable quasiparticle modes, which may be of great importance for the dynamical evolution of an incompletely thermalized quark-gluon plasma. Finally, the effects of the anisotropy on the collisional energy loss are studied.

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The collective modes of QCD at temperatures and densities above its phase-transition are analyzed for isotropic systems as well as for systems having an anisotropy in momentum-space using the HTL approximation. For isotropic systems, results for the thermodynamic pressure and entropy at finite densities based on a phenomenological description of lattice calculations at vanishing densities are derived and compared to those following from different methods. From the resulting equation of state the mass-radius relationship of so-called quark-stars and other applications are investigated. It is shown that systems with anisotropic momentum-space distributions contain unstable modes in addition to the stable quasiparticle modes, which may be of great importance for the dynamical evolution of an incompletely thermalized quark-gluon plasma. Finally, the effects of the anisotropy on the collisional energy loss are studied.

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The presence of unstable modes which have exponential growth can lead to a more rapid thermalization and isotropization of the soft modes in a quark gluon plasma and therefore may play an important role in the dynamical evolution.

Collective Modes of an Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma · 0.91

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As statistical mechanics does not provided this dependency, the standard procedure using the HTL approach [ref] for the computation of quasi-particles masses will be adopted here.

Thermodynamics of Quasi-Particles at Finite Chemical Potential · The Asymptotic Behavior of the Solutions · 1.00
Further, to obtain the induced chromo-electric field, one can solve Maxwell equation [ref] [equation] where $j_ind^μ(Q)=A_ν(Q)Π^μν(Q)$ is the induced current.

Momentum broadening of heavy quark in a magnetized thermal QCD medium · Quark contribution · 0.90
The third method is to get a self-consistent thermodynamical treatment with an effective bag constant to describe the residual interaction [ref] .

Magnetized strange quark matter in a quasiparticle description · thermodynamic treatment in a strong magnetic field · 0.89

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Most of the works in the literature are based on this approach [ref] .

Thermodynamics of Quasi-Particles at Finite Chemical Potential · Introduction · 0.83
In literature, the quark quasiparticle model has been developed by many authors in studying the dense quark matter at finite temperature and density [ref] .

Color-flavor locked strange quark matter in a strong magnetic field · Introduction · 0.96

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