{
  "id": "hep-ph/0505212",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2005-05-25T18:03:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-09-28T18:23:10.000Z",
  "title": "The Fate of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities in 3+1 Dimensions",
  "authors": [
    "Peter Arnold",
    "Guy D. Moore",
    "Laurence G. Yaffe"
  ],
  "comment": "28 pages, 22 figures [minor changes incorporated (including some minor typo fixes) to correspond to journal version]",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D72:054003,2005",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.72.054003",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-lat",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Plasma instabilities can play a fundamental role in plasma equilibration. There are similarities and differences between plasma instabilities in abelian and non-abelian gauge theories. In particular, it has been an open question whether non-abelian self-interactions are the limiting factor in the growth of non-abelian plasma instabilities. We study this problem with 3+1 dimensional numerical simulations. We find that non-abelian plasma instabilities behave very differently from abelian ones once they grow to be non-perturbatively large, in contrast with earlier results of 1+1 dimensional simulations. In particular, they grow more slowly at late times, with linear rather than exponential dependence of magnetic energy on time.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2005-09-28T18:23:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "11.15.Ha",
      "11.10.Wx",
      "12.38.Mh"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "dimensions",
      "non-abelian plasma instabilities behave",
      "non-abelian gauge theories",
      "late times",
      "plasma equilibration"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 28,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 683350
    }
  }
}