Relaxation from color Compton Scattering of Plasmons in A Collisionless Quark-Gluon Plasma

TL;DR

This paper investigates the relaxation mechanisms of collective motion in a collisionless quark-gluon plasma, emphasizing non-Abelian effects and Compton scattering, revealing new insights into plasma dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel non-Abelian relaxation process based on Compton scattering, expanding understanding of plasma relaxation beyond traditional models.

Findings

Non-Abelian effects significantly influence relaxation times.

Explicit Compton scattering calculations provide quantitative relaxation times.

The relaxation mechanism is rooted in non-linear plasma dynamics.

Abstract

Non-Abelian kinetic effects are taken into account for the study of the relaxation of collective motion in a quark-gluon plasma(QGP). An explicit Compton scattering is considered to calculate the relaxation time. It is shown that the new non-Abelian relaxation has a physical mechanism from the non-linear dynamics and the meaning of the relaxation is discussed.