Comments about the electromagnetic field in heavy-ion collisions

By Larry McLerran, V. Skokov. 2013

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In this article we discuss the properties of electromagnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and consequences for observables. We address quantitatively the issue of the magnetic field lifetime in a collision including the electric and chiral magnetic conductivities. We show that for reasonable parameters, the magnetic field created by spectators in a collision is not modified by the presence of matter.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6cc482da1ba9a1789a56cc73d87b83ab3be59af7

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. V. Koch
2. S. Esumi
3. A. Bzdak
4. N. Xu
5. J. Liao
6. M. Stephanov
7. Gert Aarts

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. N. Xu
2. V. Koch
3. J. Liao
4. A. Bzdak
5. S. Esumi
6. Gert Aarts
7. C. Allton
8. M. Stephanov

Citations in the corpus

• Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan (2019, methodology): “Figure 20: (left) The spatial distribution of the magnetic field orientation (arrow) and strength (color contour), computed for Au-Au collisions at b = 8 fm and √ sNN = 200 GeV; (middle) The magnetic field strength, measured by 〈(eB)(2)〉/m(4)π, at several points on the transverse plane in the collis”
• Electrical conductivity and charge diffusion in thermal QCD from the lattice (2014, background): “For instance, the conductivity has recently been discussed in the context of charge density fluctuations [4] and the evolution of strong electromagnetic fields produced in noncentral collisions [5–10].”