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Title: Chiral electric separation effect in the quark-gluon plasma

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
  2. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States); Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
  3. Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)

In this paper we introduce and compute a new transport coefficient for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at very high temperature. This new coefficient σχe, the CESE (Chiral Electric Separation Effect) conductivity, quantifies the amount of axial current JA that is generated in response to an externally applied electric field eE: JAχe(eE). Starting with a rather general argument in the kinetic theory framework, we show how a characteristic structure σχe∝μμ5 emerges, which also indicates the CESE as an anomalous transport effect occurring only in a parity-odd environment with nonzero axial charge density μ5 ≠ 0. Using the Hard-Thermal-Loop framework, the CESE conductivity for the QGP is found to be σχe = (#)TTrfQeQA/g⁴ln(1/g) μμ5/T² to the leading-log accuracy with the numerical constant (#) depending on favor content, e.g., (#)=14.5163 for u, d light flavors.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1183286
Report Number(s):
BNL-107763-2015-JA; PRVDAQ; R&D Project: PO-3; TRN: US1600843
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 4; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 48 works
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