Turbulent pattern formation and diffusion in the early-time dynamics in the relativistic heavy-ion collision

TL;DR

This paper explores turbulent pattern formation during early-time dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using numerical simulations to reveal domain growth phenomena similar to spin systems, shedding light on energy distribution processes.

Contribution

It introduces a novel picture of turbulence-driven pattern formation in heavy-ion collisions through SU(2) Yang-Mills simulations, linking color string breaking to energy dispersion.

Findings

Observation of domain growth in simulations

Evidence of turbulent energy redistribution

Insights into early-time collision dynamics

Abstract

We propose a picture of turbulent pattern formation in the relativistic heavy-ion collision, which follows an efficient process to break color strings and dispose energy in the whole phase space. We perform numerical simulations using the SU(2) pure Yang-Mills theory in a non-expanding box to observe a dynamical phenomenon in the transverse plane akin to the domain growth in time-dependent spin systems.