1. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

    "Plasmon mass scale and linearized gauge field fluctuations in classical Yang-Mills theory"

    Presented by Jarkko Peuron, University of Jyvaskyla

    Thursday, January 12, 2017, 12:30 pm
    Building 510, Room 2-160

    Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

    In this talk I discuss the determination of plasmon mass in classical real-time Yang-Mills theory on a lattice in 3 spatial dimensions. I compare 3 different methods to determine the plasmon mass : a hard thermal loop expression in terms of the particle distribution, an effective dispersion relation constructed from fields and their time derivatives, and by measuring oscillations between electric and magnetic field modes after artificially introducing a homogeneous color electric field. Due to plasma instabilities, small quantum fluctuations on top of the classical background may significantly affect the dynamics of the system. I argue for the need for a numerical calculation of a system of classical gauge fields and small linearized fluctuations in a way that keeps the separation between the two manifest. I derive and test an explicit algorithm to solve these equations on the lattice, maintaining gauge invariance and Gauss's law.