TY  - JOUR
A1  - Strickland, Michael T.
T1  - The chromo-weibel instability
T2  - Brazilian journal of physics
N2  - I discuss the physics of non-Abelian plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. Such momentum-space anisotropies are generated by the rapid longitudinal expansion of the matter created in the first 1 fm/c of an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse chromo-magnetic/-electric fields at short times. This instability is the QCD analogue of the Weibel instability of QED. Parametrically the chromo-Weibel instability provides the fastest method for generation of soft background fields and dominates the short-time dynamics of the system. The existence of the chromo-Weibel instability has been proven using diagrammatic methods, transport theory, and numerical solution of classical Yang-Mills fields. I review the results obtained from each of these methods and discuss the numerical techniques which are being used to determine the late-time behavior of plasmas subject to a chromo-Weibel instability.
KW  - Quark-Gluon Plasma
KW  - Non-Equilibrium Physics
KW  - Plasma Instability
KW  - Thermalization
KW  - Isotropization
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26815
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-268153
SN  - 0103-9733
SN  - 1678-4448
N1  - Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
VL  - 37
IS  - 2C
SP  - 762
EP  - 766
PB  - Springer New York
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -