Chromo-Weibel instabilities in classical Yang-Mills evolution

Abstract

The standard model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions describes the hadronic collision in four distinct stages: the initial Color glass condensate, the glasma, the quark gluon plasma and finally the hot hadron gas. Exploring the transition from at first Lorentz contracted sheets of hadrons, the color glass condensate, to thermal QCD matter is the core of this work. The study of anisotropically expanding plasmas shows that non-Abelian plasmas isotropize fast enough thanks to the chromo-Weibel instability. In recent work we find filamentation instabilities in SU(3) Yang-Mills plasma. Real time simulations are a highly promising approach to shed light on the fast thermalization of non-equilibrium matter. This involves to further develop both the theoretical foundations of the description of initial-state fluctuations and the computational framework for the turbulent dynamics of nuclear matter at extreme energy densities.