The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2229-2238

  Bödeker, Dietrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544448985     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/092     Document Type: Article

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