CPT

Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna

Instabilities in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Speaker:Maximilian Attems (TU Wien)
Abstract:The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a phase at extremely high temperatures formed by deconfined quarks and gluons as predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Non-Abelian plasma instabilities play a crucial role in the nonequilibrium dynamics of a weakly coupled QGP. The evolution of Chromo-Weibel instabilties can be carried out thanks to real-time lattice simulations. The developed hard-expanding-loop (HEL) formalism allows the (numerical) calculation of the time evolution of gluonic mean fields in full 3 dimensional Bjorken expansion.
Date: Tue, 05.10.2010
Time: 12:30
Duration: 60 min
Location:Uni Wien (Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor, Schrödinger HS / large seminar room)
Contact:Niklas Johansson