Chromo-Weibel instability

The Chromo-Weibel instability is a plasma instability present in homogeneous or nearly-homogeneous non-abelian plasmas which possess an anisotropy in momentum space. In the linear limit it is similar to the Weibel instability in electromagnetic plasmas but due to non-linear interactions present in non-abelian plasmas the late development of this instability is characterized by a turbulent cascade of modes. This instability is relevant in the understanding of the early-time dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma as produced in heavy-ion collisions.

References

• S. Mrowczynski, "Color collective effects at the early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions", Phys. Rev. C49, 2191 (1994); http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v49/i4/p2191_1
• M Strickland, "The Chromo-Weibel instability", Braz. J. Phys. 37, 762 (2007); http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0611349
• P. Arnold and G. Moore, "The Turbulent spectrum created by non-Abelian plasma instabilities", Phys. Rev. D73, 025013 (2006); http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509226

See also

• Weibel Instability