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Title: Axial Anomaly, Dirac Sea, and the Chiral Magnetic Effect

Conference ·
OSTI ID:993054

Gribov viewed the axial anomaly as a manifestation of the collective motion of Dirac fermions with arbitrarily high momenta in the vacuum. In the presence of an external magnetic field and a chirality imbalance, this collective motion becomes directly observable in the form of the electric current - this is the chiral magnetic effect (CME). I give an elementary introduction into the physics of CME, and discuss the experimental status and recent developments.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE - Office Of Science
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
993054
Report Number(s):
BNL-94198-2010-CP; R&D Project: PO-006; KB0301020; TRN: US1007906
Resource Relation:
Conference: Gribov-80 Memorial Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics and Beyond ; Trieste, Italy; 20100526 through 20100528
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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