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Sokolov--Ternov effect in rotating systems

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-11 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study electromagnetic radiation by electrically charged fermions embedded in a rotating medium in an external magnetic field. We compute the dependence of the radiation intensity on the angular velocity Ω\Omega of the rotating medium for fermion polarizations along and opposite the magnetic field direction in intense subcritical fields. The polarization dependence of the photon radiation results in the Sokolov--Ternov effect -- the radiative polarization of fermions. We study the dependence of the degree of polarziation on Ω\Omega. We found that rotation significantly changes the degree of polarization. We show that the rotating quark-gluon plasma acquires a finite magnetic moment that exhibits complex dependence on Ω\Omega.

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@article{arxiv.2409.20569,
  title  = {Sokolov--Ternov effect in rotating systems},
  author = {Jonathan D. Kroth and Kirill Tuchin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.20569},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, v2: minor improvements in figures, expanded conclusions

R2 v1 2026-06-28T19:02:45.720Z