Nonequilibrium Attractor in High-Temperature QCD Plasmas
Nonequilibrium Attractor in High-Temperature QCD Plasmas
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.125.122302
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发表时间:
2020-09-17
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Strickland, Michael
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作者:
Almaalol, Dekrayat;Kurkela, Aleksi;Strickland, Michael
We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly coupled gauge theory undergoing one-dimensional Bjorken expansion. We demonstrate that the resulting far-from-equilibrium evolution is insensitive to certain features of the initial condition, including both the initial momentum-space anisotropy and initial occupancy. We find that this insensitivity extends beyond the energy-momentum tensor to the detailed form of the one-particle distribution function. Based on our results, we assess different procedures for reconstructing the full one-particle distribution function from the energy-momentum tensor along the attractor and discuss implications for the freeze-out procedure used in the phenomenological analysis of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions.