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Magnetized quark-gluon plasma at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-12-05 v1

Abstract

In QCD, the strengths of the large scale temperature dependent chromomagnetic, B3,B8B_3, B_8, and usual magnetic, HH, fields spontaneously generated in quark-gluon plasma after the deconfinement phase transition (DPT), are estimated. The consistent at high temperature effective potential accounting for the one-loop plus daisy diagrams is used. The heavy ion collisions at the LHC and temperatures T not much higher than the phase transition temperature TdT_d are considered. The critical temperature for the magnetized plasma is found to be Td(H)T_d(H) ~ 110120110 - 120 MeV. This is essentially lower compared to the zero field value Td(H=0)T_d(H=0)~ 160180160-180 MeV usually discussed in the literature. Due to contribution of quarks, the color magnetic fields act as the sources generating H. The strengths of the fields are B3(T),B8(T)10181019G,H(T)10161017GB_3(T), B_8(T) \sim 10^{18} - 10^{19}G, H(T) \sim 10^{16} - 10^{17}G for temperatures T ~ 160 - 220 MeV. At temperatures T<110120T < 110 - 120 MeV the effective potential minimum value being negative approaches to zero. This is signaling the absence of the background fields and color confinement.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02792,
  title  = {Magnetized quark-gluon plasma at the LHC},
  author = {V. Skalozub and P. Minaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02792},
  year   = {2018}
}

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