TH Heavy Ion Coffee

Studying out-of-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma with QCD kinetic theory

by Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Universität Heidelberg)

Europe/Zurich
4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

4/2-037 - TH meeting room

CERN

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Description

 In relativistic heavy nucleus collisions an ultra-dense, high-temperature state of nuclear matter is created with de-confined 
quarks and gluons. Understanding how the non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma thermalizes is important in connecting the initial state physics with the emergent hydrodynamic behavior of the QGP at later times. In this talk, I will use weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory with quark and gluon degrees of freedom to study the QGP evolution in the far-from-equilibrium regime, where it exhibits universal scaling, and its approach to thermal and chemical equilibrium.