Hard probes of non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma

Understand

Jets and photons could play an important role in finding the transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma.

• To this end we analyze their interaction with a non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma.
• Using new field-theoretical tools we derive two-point correlators for the plasma which show how instabilities evolve in time.
• This allows us, for the first time, to derive finite rates of interaction with the medium.