Thermalization of Color Gauge Fields in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

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We discuss quantum mechanical decay of color magnetic field generated initially at high energy heavy ion collisions.

• It is caused by Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes and is accomplished possibly in a period $<1$fm/c.
• We show that the decay products, i.e.
• incoherent gluons may be thermalized in a sufficiently short period ($< 1$fm/c).