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Anisotropic hydrodynamics, holography and the chiral magnetic effect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We discuss a possible dependence of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) on the elliptic flow coefficient v2. We first study this in a hydrodynamic model for a static anisotropic plasma with multiple anomalous U(1) currents. In the case of two charges, one axial and one vector, the CME formally appears as a first-order transport coefficient in the vector current. We compute this transport coefficient and show its dependence on v2. We also determine the CME-coefficient from first-order corrections to the dual AdS background using the fluid-gravity duality. For small anisotropies, we find numerical agreement with the hydrodynamic result.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4259,
  title  = {Anisotropic hydrodynamics, holography and the chiral magnetic effect},
  author = {Ilmar Gahramanov and Tigran Kalaydzhyan and Ingo Kirsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4259},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures, published version