Spacetime dynamics of chiral magnetic currents in a hot non-Abelian plasma

Grieninger, Sebastian; Kharzeev, Dmitri E.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.108.126004

Title: Spacetime dynamics of chiral magnetic currents in a hot non-Abelian plasma

Journal Article · 04 December 2023 · Physical Review. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.108.126004 · OSTI ID:2228395

^[1]; Kharzeev, Dmitri E. ^[2]

Stony Brook University, NY (United States)
Stony Brook University, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

The correlations of electric currents in hot non-Abelian plasma are responsible for the experimental manifestations of the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions. We evaluate these correlations using holography, and show that they are driven by large-scale topological fluctuations. In a non-Abelian plasma with chiral fermions, local axial charge can be generated either by topological fluctuations (creating domains with nonzero Chern-Simons number) or by thermal fluctuations. Within holography, we investigate the dynamical creation of the axial charge and isolate the imprint of the topological dynamics on the spatial correlations of electric current. In particular, we show that the spatial extent of the current correlation is quite large (~1 fm) and grows with time, which is consistent with sphaleronlike dynamics. We provide numerical estimates for this spatial size that can be used as an input in phenomenological analyses.

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Research Organization:: Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-88ER40388; FG88ER41450

OSTI ID:: 2228395

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2282998

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Vol. 108, Issue 12; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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