Thermalization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled nonabelian plasmas

by Aleksi Kurkela (CERN)

Monday 16 Nov 2015, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

Far-from-equilibrium nonabelian plasmas appear in many cosmological pre/reheating scenarios as well as in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions. I my talk, I discuss how these far-from-equilibrium plasmas approach equilibrium and how hydrodynamical flow is generated. I discuss how the non-equilibrium evolution can be quantitatively described using a combination of classical Yang-Mills theory and effective kinetic theory, and show results on thermalization times from numerical simulations.

Slides kurkela.pdf