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Aspects of the formation and equilibration of a quark–gluon plasma are explored using a quantum kinetic equation, which involves a non-Markovian, Abelian source term for quark and antiquark production and, for the collision term, a relaxation time approximation that defines a time-dependent quasi-equilibrium temperature and collective velocity. The strong Abelian field is determined via the simultaneous solution of Maxwell's equation. A particular feature of this approach is the appearance of plasma oscillations in all thermodynamic observables. Their presence can lead to a sharp increase in the time-integrated dilepton yield, although a rapid expansion of the plasma may eliminate this signal.
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Received: 27 July 2001 / Published online: 21 November 2001
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Vinnik, D., Prozorkevich, A., Smolyansky, S. et al. Plasma production and thermalisation in a strong field. Eur. Phys. J. C 22, 341–349 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520100787
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520100787