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Chiral Langevin theory for non-Abelian plasmas

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-01-14 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Charged plasmas with chirality imbalance are unstable and tend to reduce the imbalance. This chiral plasma instability is, however, not captured in (anomalous) hydrodynamics for high-temperature non-Abelian plasmas. We derive a Langevin-type classical effective theory with anomalous parity-violating effects for non-Abelian plasmas that describes the chiral plasma instability at the magnetic scale. We show that the time scale of the instability is of order [g4Tln(1/g)]1[g^4 T \ln(1/g)]^{-1} at weak coupling.

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@article{arxiv.1402.4174,
  title  = {Chiral Langevin theory for non-Abelian plasmas},
  author = {Yukinao Akamatsu and Naoki Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4174},
  year   = {2015}
}

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v3: 30 pages, 2 figures, published version