Event-by-event fluctuations of magnetic and electric fields in heavy ion collisions
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Abstract We show that fluctuating proton positions in the colliding nuclei generate, on the event-by-event basis, very strong magnetic and electric fields in the direction both parallel and perpendicular to the reaction plane. The magnitude of E and B fields in each event is of the order of m π 2 ≈ 10 18 Gauss. Implications on the observation of electric dipole in heavy ion collisions is discussed, and the possibility of measuring the electric conductivity of the hot medium is pointed out.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Particle Production in Strong Electromagnetic Fields in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (2013, background): “Evidently, magnetic field rapidly decreases as a power of time, so that after first 3 fm it drops by more than three orders of magnitude.”
- Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan (2019, methodology): “Quantitative computations of such magnetic field strength, using event-by-event simulations, have been done at various beam energies and centralities as well as for different colliding systems [189, 191–193], with an example shown in Fig.”
- Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions: General Aspects and Recent Developments (2016, background): “Previous theoretical studies show that the intensity of the produced magnetic field rises approximately linearly with the centre of mass energy ( √ sNN) of the colliding nucleons [218, 219].”