The Plasma Physics of Quark-Gluon Plasma (a theorist's perspective)
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The Plasma Physics of QuarkGluon Plasmas
(A Theorist's Perspective)
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Peter Arnold, University of Virginia
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A brief summary of the field ofplasma physics
(A particle theorist's perspective)
First...
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Plasma physics is complicated
Image of solar coronal filament from NASA’s TRACE satellite
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plasma = gas of charged particles
quarkgluon plasma:electromagnetism color force
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Similarity:
Minor difference: 1 photon 8 colors of gluon
Major difference:
scattering
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Familiar difference in T=0 physics:No free quarks! (confinement into colorneutral objects)
Note for later: lots of partons in hadrons if you resolve small distances (probe with high energies)
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blackbody radiation
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kBT ~ 0.5 MeV
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kBT ~ 50 MeV
Higher T higher density
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kBT ~ 200 MeV
Higher T higher density
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kBT >> 200 MeV
Higher T higher density
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Also: Asymptotic Freedom
Higher temperature smaller coupling αs
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Ideal gas
Lattice data(courtesy F. Karsch)
= 2 2
30T 4photons:
2 polarizations
massless pions: = 3 2
30T 4≃T 4
π0 , π+ , π- (spin 0)
quarkgluon plasma with u,d,s: = 47.5 2
30T 4≃16T 4
(u,d,s) (3 colors) (2 spins)+ antiquarks + gluons (8 colors) (2 polarizations)
units:
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Where to find a QGP?
The Early Universe
Heavy Ion Collisions
E ~ 100 GeV per nucleonv = 0.99995 cAu:
RHIC
t10−6 sec
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Deconfinement as Debye Screening
Potential energy between 2 charges in vacuum
QED QCD
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Deconfinement as Debye Screening
In a medium with free charges:
QED
Debye screening length: D~ Te2 n
1/2
ultrarelativistic: n~T 3 D~1
eT
Higher temperature smaller Debye radius
re−r /D
r
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QED QCD
Deconfinement as Debye Screening
In a medium with free charges:
Higher temperature smaller Debye radius
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The Debye effect screens electric fields. In contrast:
So
QED: magnetic forces are still long range
QCD: could there be confinement of colored currents?
Magnetic fields are not screened in a plasma.
no long range colored B fields?
Version for particle theorists: Do spatialWilson loops still have arealaw behavior?
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YES, and at very short distances too!
nBose=1
eE−1
TE
as E 0
For massless bosons,
E~ p~T nBose~1
Photons don't directly interact with each other, but gluons do.
Result: Perturbation theory breaks down for gluons with p ~ α T .
nBose~1
∣e∣2~costs for extra interaction
for density of extra gluons
1 total
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Summary
electric screening at D~1
eTno charge confinement
no traditional magnetic screening current confinement at 1e2 T
1e2 T
1eT
1T
1 fm1e4 T
Long distance physics is hydrodynamics,not colored MHD.
Note: “e” means “gs” here
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Is there no “interesting” plasma physics in aquarkgluon plasma?
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QGP hydrodynamicsIndependent collisions: mean free path >> anything
Hydrodynamics: mean free path << whatever
elliptic flow
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Hydrodynamics usually associated with fluids in local equilibrium.
Distributions are isotropic in local fluid rest frames.
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How well does hydrodynamics do?
Phenomenological question: Is t = 0.6 fm/c reasonable?
Can a quarkgluon plasma reach local equilibrium in a time of order 0.6 fm/c?
Groups studying flow successfully model many aspectsof heavyion collisions withideal hydrodynamics.
But it requires hydrodynamical behavior to set in fairly early.Some like like to quote: t = 0.6 fm/c
Pasi Huovinen
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ThermalizationQuestion: What is the (local) thermalization time for QGPs in heavy ion collisions?
A simpler question: What is it for arbitrarily high energy collisions, where αs < < 1?
A much simpler question: How does that time depend on αs?
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ThermalizationQuestion: What is the (local) thermalization time for QGPs in heavy ion collisions?
A simpler question: What is it for arbitrarily high energy collisions, where αs < < 1?
A much simpler question: How does that time depend on αs?
“Bottomup thermalization” predicted ?? = 13/5 (Baier, Mueller, Schiff, and Son)
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BottomUp Thermalization(Baier, Mueller, Schiff, Son '00)
Starting point
System expandsdensity decreasesmore perturbative
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BottomUp Thermalization(Baier, Mueller, Schiff, Son '00)
Later, if interactions ignored
∆ z » vz t
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pΤ
pz
Later, if interactions ignored
BottomUp Thermalization(Baier, Mueller, Schiff, Son '00)
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thermalized
equilibrium
BottomUp Thermalization(Baier, Mueller, Schiff, Son '00)
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So what's the problem?
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Plasma physics is complicated
Image of solar coronal filament from NASA’s TRACE satellite
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1e2 T
1eT
1T
1e4 T
typical p
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Big enough for collective effects.Small enough for magnetic effects.
A Window for Interesting Collective Effects
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The Weibel (or filamentation) instability
Parallel currentsattract
Opposite currentsrepel
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Parallel currentsattract
Opposite currentsrepel
The Weibel (or filamentation) instability
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The Weibel (or filamentation) instability
Parallel currentsattract
Opposite currentsrepel
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Weibel instability occurs when velocity distribution is anisotropic.
Example: T−1
eT −1
In relativistic QED, would grow until
1e2 T
1eT
1T
1e4 T
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Instabilitiesfast randomization
Except ...
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Colored magnetic fields can interact with each other!
Can this stop instability growth before ?
or
T 4
e2 T 4
T 4
B2
growth until
growth limited by ?
(log
axis)
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The Vlasov Equations
Traditional QED Plasmas
Describe particles by classical phase space density f(p,x,t).Describe EM fields by classical gauge fields Aµ(x,t).
Collisionless Boltzmann eq.∂t f v⋅∇ x f eEv×B⋅∇ p f =0
∂ F= j=∫p e v f Maxwell's eqs.
QCD Plasmas
∂t ∂t−i e A0 and ∇ x ∇ x−i e A above.
f(p,x,t) becomes a color density matrix.
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vs.
T 4
e2 T 4
T 4
B2
Can cleanly study shaded region of
by writing f = fo + δf and linearizing in δf :
e2 T 4 e2 T 4vs.
Numerical Simulations:
Treat x as a lattice (lattice gauge theory).Discretize p.Evolve classical QCD Vlasov equations in time.
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Rebhan, Romatschke, Stickland '04
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Arnold, Moore, Yaffe '05
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Coulomb gauge spectra
Arnold & Moore
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Examples of energy cascadesTurbulence in hydrodynamics
Big whirls make little whirlswhich feed on their velocity;
Little whirls make lesser whirls,and so on to viscosity.
L.F.G. Richardson
Applications in Particle Physics
Kolmogorov spectrum: (energy)k ~ k5/3
Thermalization after inflation in the early Universe.
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So what's the answer?
Problem:
So far, only understood the case of moderate anisotropy,
But early stages of superhighenergy heavy ion collisionswould initially generate parametrically extremeanisotropy, e.g.
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Summary
➢ There is interesting plasma physics in quarkgluon plasmas,but it behaves differently than in traditional plasmas.
➢ Because of this interesting plasma physics, theorists havemore work to do to understand quarkgluon plasmaequilibration even at the weak couplings of arbitrarilyhigh energy collisions.
Guy Moore Jonathan Lenaghan Larry Yaffe
My collaborators:
(McGill) (Physical Review) (U. Washington)Poshan Leang
(UVa)Caglar Dogan
(UVa)