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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 O()\mathcal O(\hbar) 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 HH-function obeying Boltzmann's HH-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

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