Collisions in Chiral Kinetic Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-07-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Using a covariant formalism, we construct a chiral kinetic theory Lorentz invariant to order which includes collisions. We find a new contribution to the particle number current due to the side jumps required by the conservation of angular momentum during collisions. We also find a conserved symmetric stress-energy tensor as well as the -function obeying Boltzmann's -theorem. We demonstrate their use by finding a general equilibrium solution and the values of the anomalous transport coefficients characterizing chiral vortical effect.
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@article{arxiv.1502.06966,
title = {Collisions in Chiral Kinetic Theory},
author = {Jing-Yuan Chen and Dam T. Son and Mikhail A. Stephanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06966},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages