Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar
"Studying out-of-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma with QCD kinetic"
Presented by Aleksas Mazeliauskas, University of Heidelberg
Friday, October 19, 2018, 2 pm
Building 510, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38
Hosted by: Niklas Mueller
In relativistic heavy nucleus collisions an ultra-dense, high-temperature state of nuclear matter is created with de-confined quarks and gluons. Understanding how the non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma thermalizes is important in connecting the initial state physics with the emergent hydrodynamic behavior of the QGP at later times. In this talk, I will use weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory with quark and gluon degrees of freedom to study the QGP evolution in the far-from-equilibrium regime, where it exhibits universal scaling, and its approach to thermal and chemical equilibrium.