Event-by-event generation of electromagnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions
By W. Deng, Xu-Guang Huang. 2012
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We compute the electromagnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions by using the HIJING model. Although after averaging over many events only the magnetic field perpendicular to the reaction plane is sizable, we find very strong electric and magnetic fields both parallel and perpendicular to the reaction plane on the event-by-event basis. We study the time evolution and the spatial distribution of these fields. Especially, the electromagnetic response of the quark-gluon plasma can give non-trivial evolution of the electromagnetic fields. The implications of the strong electromagnetic fields on the hadronic observables are also discussed.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- 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].”
- 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.”