Far-from-equilibrium attractors for massive kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation

Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

^* e-mail: halalawi@kent.edu
^** e-mail: mstrick6@kent.edu

Published online: 26 June 2024

Abstract

In this proceedings contribution, we summarize recent findings concerning the presence of early- and late-time attractors in non-conformal kinetic theory. We study the effects of varying both the initial momentum-space anisotropy and initialization times using an exact solution of the 0+1D boostinvariant Boltzmann equation with a mass- and temperature-dependent relaxation time. Our findings support the existence of a longitudinal pressure attractor, but they do not support the existence of distinct attractors for the bulk viscous and shear pressures. Considering a large set of integral moments, we show that for moments with greater than one power of longitudinal momentum squared, both early- and late-time attractors are present.