Discovery of a turbulent attractor in an off-equilibrium str

Seminar

Discovery of a turbulent attractor in an off-equilibrium strongly correlated non-Abelian plasma

Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Date

Friday, 6 September, 2013 at 14:00

Place

Aula 507 (Facultat de Física)

Collisions of large nuclei at asymptotically high energies will produce a highly occupied, strongly correlated state called a Glasma. How and if this system thermalizes is a problem ofoutstanding interest in theoretical physics, with potential phenomenological implications. We report on results obtained using the largest ever real time lattice simulations of an SU(2)gauge theory. These conclusively point to the existence of a non-trivial universal fixed point in the space-time evolution of such plasmas. We consider the interesting possibility of other fixed point solutions at largecouplings, and contextualize our discussion in the framework of results from heavy ion experiments at RHIC and the LHC.