Time-dependent observables in heavy ion collisions. II. In search of pressure isotropization in the ^4 theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2018)157zbMATH Open1387.81367arXiv1709.02868MaRDI QIDQ1750992FDOQ1750992

Authors: Yuri V. Kovchegov, Bin Wu 

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To understand the dynamics of thermalization in heavy ion collisions in the perturbative framework it is essential to first find corrections to the free-streaming classical gluon fields of the McLerran-Venugopalan model. The corrections that lead to deviations from free streaming (and that dominate at late proper time) would provide evidence for the onset of isotropization (and, possibly, thermalization) of the produced medium. To find such corrections we calculate the late-time two-point Green function and the energy-momentum tensor due to a single $2o2$ scattering process involving two classical fields. To make the calculation tractable we employ the scalar $varph{i}^4$ theory instead of QCD. We compare our exact diagrammatic results for these quantities to those in kinetic theory and find disagreement between the two. The disagreement is in the dependence on the proper time $au$ and, for the case of the two-point function, is also in the dependence on the space-time rapidity $eta$: the exact diagrammatic calculation is, in fact, consistent with the free streaming scenario. Kinetic theory predicts a build-up of longitudinal pressure, which, however, is not observed in the exact calculation. We conclude that we find no evidence for the beginning of the transition from the free-streaming classical fields to the kinetic theory description of the produced matter after a single $2o2$ rescattering.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02868

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zbMATH Keywords

quark-gluon plasmaperturbative QCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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