Hard-loop dynamics of non-Abelian plasma instabilities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Rebhan, Anton ^a   Romatschke, Paul ^b   Strickland, Michael ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; HARD-LOOP DYNAMICS; LATTICE DISCRETIZATION; LINEAR APPROXIMATION; NON-ABELIAN PLASMA INSTABILITIES;

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; HEAVY IONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA STABILITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PLASMA APPLICATIONS;

EID: 18144429870     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.102303     Document Type: Article

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