Instabilities driven equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma
Stanislaw Mrowczynski
TL;DR
This paper reviews how magnetic plasma instabilities in anisotropic quark-gluon plasma accelerate the system's isotropization and equilibration during early heavy-ion collisions.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive review of the role of instabilities in the isotropization process of quark-gluon plasma.
Findings
Instabilities lead to rapid isotropization of the plasma.
Magnetic plasma modes are key to equilibration.
The review summarizes current understanding of instability-driven dynamics.
Abstract
Due to anisotropic momentum distributions the parton system produced at the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is unstable with respect to the magnetic plasma modes. The instabilities isotropize the system and thus speed up the process of its equilibration. The whole scenario of the instabilities driven isotropization is reviewed.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics