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Electromagnetic fields with electric and chiral magnetic conductivities in heavy ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2016-10-19 v2

Abstract

We derive analytic formula for electric and magnetic fields produced by a moving charged particle in a conducting medium with the electric conductivity σ\sigma and the chiral magnetic conductivity σχ\sigma_{\chi}. We use the Green function method and assume that σχ\sigma_{\chi} is much smaller than σ\sigma. The compact algebraic expressions for electric and magnetic fields without any integrals are obtained. They recover the Lienard-Wiechert formula at vanishing conductivities. Exact numerical solutions are also found for any values of σ\sigma and σχ\sigma_{\chi} and are compared to analytic results. Both numerical and analytic results agree very well for the scale of high energy heavy ion collisions. The space-time profiles of electromagnetic fields in non-central Au+Au collisions have been calculated based on these analytic formula as well as exact numerical solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02223,
  title  = {Electromagnetic fields with electric and chiral magnetic conductivities in heavy ion collisions},
  author = {Hui Li and Xin-li Sheng and Qun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02223},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

RevTex 4, 7 figures, 13 pages; section III-B has been re-written using dimensionful variables to improve readability; added references and one figure