Thermalization and hydrodynamization in weakly coupled nonabelian plasmas
by
Aleksi Kurkela(CERN)
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Europe/Berlin
seminar room 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)
seminar room 2, building 2A
DESY Hamburg
Description
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.
