Wednesday, May 16, 2012

1205.3357 (Mahatsab Mandal et al.)

Dijet induced collective modes in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma    [PDF]

Mahatsab Mandal, Pradip Roy
We discuss the collective modes due to the propagation of two oppositely moving relativistic jets (dijet) in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma(AQGP) and compare the results with the case of single jet propagation. Assuming a tsunami-like initial jet distribution, it is found that the dispersion relations for both the stable and unstable modes are altered significantly due to the passage of dijet compared to the case of single jet propagation. It has also been shown that the growth rate of instability, due to introduction of dijet in the system, increases compared to the case of single jet case. As in the case of single jet propagation, the instability always grows when the jet velocity is perpendicular to the wave vector. We, thus, argue that the introduction of dijet in the AQGP, in general, leads to faster isotropization (than single jet propagation) for the special case when the wave vector is parallel to the anisotropy axis.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3357

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