Published August 2007 | Version v1
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Fully nonlinear excitations of non-Abelian plasmas

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala-673 635 (India)

Description

We investigate fully nonlinear, non-Abelian excitations of quark-antiquark plasma using relativistic fluid theory in cold plasma approximation. There are mainly three important nonlinearities, coming from various sources such as non-Abelian interactions of Yang-Mills (YM) fields, Wong's color dynamics, and plasma nonlinearity, in our model. By neglecting nonlinearities due to plasma and color dynamics we obtain the earlier results of J. P. Blaizot and E. Iancu [Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3317 (1994)]. Similarly, by neglecting YM field nonlinearity and plasma nonlinearity, the model reduces to the model of S. S. Gupta, P. K. Kaw, and J. C. Parikh [Phys. Lett. B498, 223 (2005)]. Thus we have the most general non-Abelian mode of quark-gluon plasma. Further, our model resembles the model of laser propagation through relativistic plasma [P. K. Paw, A. Sen, and E. J. Valeo, Physica 9D, 96 (1983)] in the absence of all non-Abelian interactions

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 024913-024913.4
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society