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Probing nucleons with photons at the quark level
2014
The description of electromagnetic interactions with hadrons from the quark level requires knowledge of the underlying quark-gluon ingredients. I discuss some properties of the quark-photon vertex and quark Compton vertex, along with the role of electromagnetic gauge invariance and vector-meson dominance. A simple parametrization for the quark-photon vertex is given.
Structure of longitudinal chromomagnetic fields in high energy collisions
2014
We compute expectation values of spatial Wilson loops in the forward light cone of high-energy collisions. We consider ensembles of gauge field configurations generated from a classical Gaussian effective action as well as solutions of high-energy renormalization group evolution with fixed and running coupling. The initial fields correspond to a color field condensate exhibiting domain-like structure over distance scales of order the saturation scale. At later times universal scaling emerges at large distances for all ensembles, with a nontrivial critical exponent. Finally, we compare the results for the Wilson loop to the two-point correlator of magnetic fields.
Determination of the non-abelian Debye screening mass using classical chromodynamics
2014
Tässä työssä tutkitaan gluonin Debye-massaa, ja sen aika- ja miehityslukudis- tribuutioriippuvuutta käyttäen klassista väridynamiikkaa kahdessa paikkaulot- tuvuudessa. Työssä tutkitaan myös ominaista liikemääräskaalaa ja miehitys- lukudistribuutioita. Gluonin Debye-massa määritetään sovittamalla suora glu- onien dispersiorelaatioon pienellä liikemäärällä. Tuloksia verrataan termisestä kenttäteoriasta johdetun kaavan ennusteisiin. Aluksi tutustutaan raskasionifysiikkaan liittyvään viitekehykseen. Tämän jälkeen kerrataan nopeasti klassinen Yang-Mills teoria jatkumossa ja hilalla. Käydään läpi Fourier kiihdytetty Coulombin mitan kiinnitysmenetelmä yk- sityiskohtaisesti jatkumossa ja hilalla. T…
Topological Protection and Control of Quantum Markovianity
2020
This article belongs to the Special Issue Topological Photonics.
Highly occupied gauge theories in 2 + 1 dimensions : a self-similar attractor
2019
Motivated by the boost-invariant Glasma state in the initial stages in heavy-ion collisions, we perform classical-statistical simulations of SU(2) gauge theory in 2+1 dimensional space-time both with and without a scalar field in the adjoint representation. We show that irrespective of the details of the initial condition, the far-from-equilibrium evolution of these highly occupied systems approaches a unique universal attractor at high momenta that is the same for the gauge and scalar sectors. We extract the scaling exponents and the form of the distribution function close to this non-thermal fixed point. We find that the dynamics are governed by an energy cascade to higher momenta with sc…
Quasiparticle properties of nonequilibrium gluon plasma
2018
We apply classical gluodynamics to early stages of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We start by giving a brief overview of QCD. Then we proceed to the space-time evolution of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions in the color glass condensate framework and go through the basics of real-time gluodynamics on the lattice in the temporal gauge. We study the plasmon mass scale in three- and two-dimensional systems by comparing three different methods to measure the mass scale. The methods are a formula which can be derived from Hard Thermal Loop effective theory at leading order (HTL), the effective dispersion relation (DR) and measurement of the plasma oscillation frequency triggered by th…