QCD plasma instabilities and bottom-up thermalization

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 21-58

  Arnold, Peter ^a   Lenaghan, Jonathan ^a   Moore, Guy D ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044436670     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/002     Document Type: Article

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