Dynamics of quark-gluon-plasma instabilities in discretized hard-loop approximation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1043-1074

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

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Lattice QCD; QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044472623     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/041     Document Type: Article

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