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Hard-Loop Dynamics of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities

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arxiv hep-ph/0412016 v3 pith:2MEEHD6S submitted 2004-12-02 hep-ph nucl-th

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keywords instabilitiesnon-abelianplasmaexponentialgrowthhard-loopanisotropicapparent
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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.

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