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Thermalization of gluon matter including gg<->ggg interactions
Within a pQCD inspired kinetic parton cascade we simulate the space time
evolution of gluons which are produced initially in a heavy ion collision at
RHIC energy. The inelastic gluonic interactions do
play an important role: For various initial conditions it is found that
thermalization and the close to ideal fluid dynamical behaviour sets in at very
early times. Special emphasis is put on color glass condensate initial
conditions and the `bottom up thermalization' scenario. Off-equilibrium processes make up the very beginning of the evolution leading to an initial
decrease in gluon number and a temporary avalanche of the gluon momentum
distribution to higher transversal momenta.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, Talk given at International Conference on Strong
and Electroweak Matter (SEWM 2006), BNL, New York, May 200
Note on counterterms in asymptotically flat spacetimes
We consider in more detail the covariant counterterm proposed by Mann and
Marolf in asymptotically flat spacetimes. With an eye to specific practical
computations using this counterterm, we present explicit expressions in general
dimensions that can be used in the so-called `cylindrical cut-off' to
compute the action and the associated conserved quantities for an
asymptotically flat spacetime. As applications, we show how to compute the
action and the conserved quantities for the NUT-charged spacetime and for the
Kerr black hole in four dimensions.Comment: 13 pages, v. 2 added reference
Vortex stability in nearly two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with attraction
We perform accurate investigation of stability of localized vortices in an
effectively two-dimensional ("pancake-shaped") trapped BEC with negative
scattering length. The analysis combines computation of the stability
eigenvalues and direct simulations. The states with vorticity S=1 are stable in
a third of their existence region, , where is
the number of atoms, and is the corresponding collapse
threshold. Stable vortices easily self-trap from arbitrary initial
configurations with embedded vorticity. In an adjacent interval, , the unstable vortex
periodically splits in two fragments and recombines. At , the fragments do not recombine, as each one collapses by
itself. The results are compared with those in the full 3D Gross-Pitaevskii
equation. In a moderately anisotropic 3D configuration, with the aspect ratio
, the stability interval of the S=1 vortices occupies
of their existence region, hence the 2D limit provides for a reasonable
approximation in this case. For the isotropic 3D configuration, the stability
interval expands to 65% of the existence domain. Overall, the vorticity
heightens the actual collapse threshold by a factor of up to 2. All vortices
with are unstable.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Physical Review
A user-centric execution environment for <em>CineGrid</em> workloads
The abundance and heterogeneity of IT resources available, together with the ability to dynamically scale applications poses significant usability issues to users. Without understanding the performance profile of available resources users are unable to efficiently scale their applications in order to meet performance objectives. High quality media collaborations, like CineGrid, are one example of such diverse environments where users can leverage dynamic infrastructures to move and process large amounts of data. This paper describes our user-centric approach to executing high quality media processing workloads over dynamic infrastructures. Our main contribution is the CGtoolkit environment, an integrated system which aids users cope with the infrastructure complexity and large data sets specific to the digital cinema domain
40 Gigabit ethernet: prototyping transparent end-to-end connectivity
The ever increasing demands of data intensive eScience applications have pushed the limits of computer networks. With the launch of the new 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GE) standard, 802.3ba, applications can go beyond the common 10 Gigabit/s per data stream barrier for both local area, and as demonstrated in the GLIF 2010 and Supercomputing 2010 demos [3], wide area setups. In this article we profile the performance of state-of-the-art server hardware combined with 40GE technology. We give an insight on the issues involved with ultra high performance network adapters and suggest optimization approaches
Direct photons in Pb+Pb at CERN-SPS from microscopic transport theory
Direct photon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS energy is
calculated within the relativistic microscopic transport model UrQMD, and
within distinctly different versions of relativistic hydrodynamics. We find
that in UrQMD the local momentum distributions of the secondaries are strongly
elongated along the beam axis initially. Therefore, the pre-equilibrium
contribution dominates the photon spectrum at transverse momenta above GeV. The hydrodynamics prediction of a strong correlation between the
temperature and radial expansion velocities on the one hand and the slope of
the transverse momentum distribution of direct photons on the other hand thus
is not recovered in UrQMD. The rapidity distribution of direct photons in UrQMD
reveals that the initial conditions for the longitudinal expansion of the
photon source (the meson ``fluid'') resemble rather boostinvariance than
Landau-like flow.Comment: 14 pages, RevTex, 5 Encapsulated-PostScript Figure
Ultraviolet avalanche in anisotropic non-Abelian plasmas
We present solutions of coupled particle-field evolution in classical U(1)
and SU(2) gauge theories in real time on three-dimensional lattices. For
strongly anisotropic particle momentum distributions, we find qualitatively
different behavior for the two theories when the field strength is high enough
that non-Abelian self-interactions matter for SU(2). It appears that the energy
drained by a Weibel-like plasma instability from the particles does not build
up exponentially in transverse magnetic fields but instead returns,
isotropically, to the hard scale via a rapid avalanche into the ultraviolet.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures; v3: small textual changes; updated to
correspond with version to appear in publicatio
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