Maxwell-Chern-Simons hydrodynamics for the chiral magnetic effect

Journal Article · Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVC.81.062201· OSTI ID:21388571

Oezoender, Sener ^[1]

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1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)

The rate of vacuum-changing topological solutions of the gluon field, sphalerons, is estimated to be large at the typical temperatures of heavy-ion collisions, particularly at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Such windings in the gluon field are expected to produce parity-odd bubbles, which cause separation of positively and negatively charged quarks along the axis of the external magnetic field. This chiral magnetic effect can be mimicked by Chern-Simons modified electromagnetism. Here we present a model of relativistic hydrodynamics including the effects of axial anomalies via the Chern-Simons term.

• OSTI ID: 21388571
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 81, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.81.062201; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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