Bjorken flow, plasma instabilities, and thermalization

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Kurkela, Aleksi ^a   Moore, Guy D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255197315     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)120     Document Type: Article

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