Early quark production and approach to chemical equilibrium

Gelfand, D.; Hebenstreit, Florian; Berges, J. (2016). Early quark production and approach to chemical equilibrium. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 93(8) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.085001

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We perform real-time lattice simulations of out-of-equilibrium quark production in non-Abelian gauge theory in 3 þ 1 dimensions. Our simulations include the backreaction of quarks onto the dynamical gluon sector, which is particularly relevant for strongly correlated quarks. We observe fast isotropization and
universal behavior of quarks and gluons at weak coupling and establish a quantitative connection to previous pure glue results. In order to understand the strongly correlated regime, we perform simulations for a large number of flavors and compare them to those obtained with two light quark flavors. By doing
this we are able to provide estimates of the chemical equilibration time.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Hebenstreit, Florian

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1550-7998

Publisher:

American Physical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

08 Aug 2016 13:57

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:57

Publisher DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.93.085001

ArXiv ID:

1601.03576

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.85286

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/85286

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