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Magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions are pivotal and subject to diverse factors. In this study, we quantitatively investigate the impact of fluid vorticity on the evolution of magnetic fields in the 20-50\% centrality class in Au+Au…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-28 Anping Huang , Xiang-Yu Wu , Mei Huang

We compute the electromagnetic field created by an ultrarelativistic charged particle in vacuum at distances comparable to the particle Compton wavelength. The wave function of the particle is governed by the Klein-Gordon equation, for a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Balthazar Peroutka , Kirill Tuchin

I review the origin and properties of electromagnetic fields produced in heavy ion collisions. The field strength immediately after a collision is proportional to the collision energy and reaches eB\sim(m_\pi)^2 at RHIC and eB\sim10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-21 Kirill Tuchin

A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found, which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales $ \tilde \, 10^4 \,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Stockem , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We analyze the generation of helical magnetic fields during preheating in a model of low-scale electroweak (EW) hybrid inflation. We show how the inhomogeneities in the Higgs field, resulting from tachyonic preheating after inflation, seed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Andres Diaz-Gil , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Margarita Garcia Perez , Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo

Magnetic field generation in ultra-intense laser-solid interactions is studied over a range of laser intensities relevant to next-generation laser facilities ($a_0 = 50-500$) using 2D particle-in-cell simulations. It is found that fields on…

We study effects of electron-electron interactions on the steady-state characteristics of a hexagonal molecular ring in a magnetic field, as a model for a benzene molecular junction. The system is driven out of equilibrium by applying a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-07 Martin Nuss , Wolfgang von der Linden , Enrico Arrigoni

We investigate the space-time picture of string evolution and hadron production in a fully string-based model for high energy collisions involving heavy ions. We find that although the density strings is quite large at the time of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Smita Chakraborty , Leif Lönnblad

We investigate the impact of baryon stopping on the temporal evolution of electromagnetic fields in vacuum at low-energy Au+Au collisions with $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 4$-$20$ GeV. Baryon stopping is incorporated into the Monte-Carlo Glauber model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 Ankit Kumar Panda , Partha Bagchi , Hiranmaya Mishra , Victor Roy

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and their external electromagnetic fields can be effectively approximated as quasi-real photons. These photons interact with another…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Zhan Zhang , Xin Wu , Xinbai Li , Wangmei Zha , Zebo Tang

In high energy heavy-ion collisions the magnetic field is very strong right after the nuclei penetrate each other and a non-equilibrium system of quarks and gluons builds up. Even though quarks might not be very abundant initially, their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-12 Moritz Greif , Carsten Greiner , Zhe Xu

It was proposed that the electric fields may lead to chiral separation in QGP, which is called the chiral electric separation effect. The strong electromagnetic field and the QCD vacuum can both completely be produced in the off-central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-03 Yang Zhong , Chun-Bin Yang , Xu Cai , Sheng-Qin Feng

The Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (PHSD) transport model is used to study the impact on the choice of initial degrees of freedom on the final hadronic and electromagnetic observables in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. We find…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Pierre Moreau , Olena Linnyk , Wolfgang Cassing , Elena Bratkovskaya

Non-central heavy-ion collisions generate the strongest magnetic field of the order of $10^{18}-10^{19}$ Gauss due to the electric current produced by the positively charged spectators that travel at nearly the speed of light. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Duan She , Ze Fang Jiang , De-fu Hou , C. B. Yang

We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by an initially unmagnetized collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated shock,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Philip Chang , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions generate ultra-strong magnetic fields that interact with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a key focus of high-energy physics research.This study investigates QGP energy density evolution under time-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Huang-Jing Zheng , Sheng-Qin Feng

This paper is the first in a series aimed at understanding the long-term evolution of neutron star magnetic fields. We model the stellar matter as an electrically neutral and lightly ionized plasma composed of three moving particle species:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Hoyos , A. Reisenegger , J. A. Valdivia

The hot QCD matter produced in any heavy ion collision with a nonzero impact parameter is produced within a strong magnetic field. We study the imprint the magnetic fields produced in non-central heavy ion collisions leave on the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Umut Gursoy , Dmitri Kharzeev , Krishna Rajagopal

The formation of the QCD vacuum with nonzero winding number $Q_w$ during relativistic heavy-ion collisions breaks the parity and charge-parity symmetry. A new kind of field configuration can separate charge in the presence of a background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Yu-Jun Mo , Sheng-Qin Feng , Ya-Fei Shi

Multi MeV protons \cite{snavely2000intense} and heavier ions are emitted by thin foils irradiated by high-intensity lasers, due to the huge accelerating fields, up to several teraelectronvolt per meter, at sub-picosecond timescale…