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    "abstract": "Hydrodynamical modeling of heavy ion collisions at RHIC suggests that the\nquark-gluon plasma (QGP) \"thermalizes\" in a remarkably short time scale, about\n0.6 fm/c. We argue that this should be viewed as indicating fast\nisotropization, but not necessarily complete thermalization, of the\nnon-equilibrium QGP. Non-Abelian plasma instabilities can drive local\nisotropization of an anisotropic QGP on a time scale which is faster than\nordinary perturbative scattering processes. As a result, we argue that\ntheoretical expectations based on weak coupling analysis are not necessarily in\nconflict with hydrodynamic modeling of the early part of RHIC collisions,\nprovided one recognizes the key role of non-Abelian plasma instabilities.",
    "arxiv_id": "nucl-th/0409068",
    "authors": [
      "Peter Arnold",
      "Jonathan Lenaghan",
      "Guy D. Moore",
      "Laurence G. Yaffe"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "nucl-th",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.072302",
    "journal_ref": "Phys.Rev.Lett.94:072302,2005",
    "title": "Apparent Thermalization due to Plasma Instabilities in Quark-Gluon   Plasma",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0409068"
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