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Molecular dynamics simulations are used to show that strong magnetization significantly increases the space and time scales associated with interparticle correlations. The physical mechanism responsible is a channeling effect whereby…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Keith R. Vidal , Scott D. Baalrud

Magnetic fields of a large intensity can be generated in peripheral high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Although their intensity drops fast and, moreover, it is not clear whether these fields last long enough to induce a magnetization during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-17 A. Ayala , A. Mizher

Recent discussions of RHIC data emphasized the exciting possibility that the matter produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions shows properties of a near-perfect fluid. Here, we aim at delineating the applicability of fluid dynamics, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rudolf Baier , Paul Romatschke , Urs Achim Wiedemann

I discuss the electrical conductivity, bulk viscosity, and heavy-quark diffusion coefficient in strong magnetic fields putting emphasis on consequences of the chirality conservation on the perturbative relaxation dynamics.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Koichi Hattori

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a highly discussed effect in heavy-ion collisions stating that, in the presence of a magnetic field B, an electric current is generated in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Ingo Kirsch , Tigran Kalaydzhyan

Stars and gaseous planets are magnetised objects but the influence of magnetic fields on their tidal responses and dissipation rates has not been well explored. We present the first exploratory nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

A strong magnetic field influences significantly the masses of the charged light mesons. For example, the mass of charged pion increases with the magnetic field increasing. We propose this mechanism as a possible way to extract the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Kun Xu , Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao , Mei Huang

We briefly review the recent developments in magnetohydrodynamics, which in particular deal with the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent plasmas. We especially emphasize (i) the necessity of renormalizing equations of motion in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Amir Jafari

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Magnetic fields of cosmic bodies are generated by the hydromagnetic dynamo effect in moving electrically conducting fluids, such as liquid metals or plasmas. Once produced, cosmic magnetic fields are able to act back on moving fluids. This…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Frank Stefani

We investigate the properties of electromagnetic fields in isobaric $_{44}^{96}\textrm{Ru}+\,_{44}^{96}\textrm{Ru}$ and $_{40}^{96}\textrm{Zr}+\,_{40}^{96}\textrm{Zr}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV by using a multiphase transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-28 Xin-Li Zhao , Guo-Liang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

We investigate the real-time dynamics of the chiral magnetic effect in quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We consider a field configuration of parallel (chromo)electric and (chromo)magnetic fields with a weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Harmen J. Warringa

We investigate the dynamics of the chiral transition in an expanding quark-anti-quark plasma. The calculations are made within a linear sigma model with explicit quark and antiquark degrees of freedom. We solve numerically the classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 I. N. Mishustin , J. A. Pedersen , O. Scavenius

Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) is a gapless collective excitation of chiral charges along the direction of magnetic field in the Quark-Gluon Plasma that arises from the triangle anomaly of QCD. We perform reliable study of the CMW in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

It is believed that in non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions a very strong magnetic field is formed. There are several studies of the effects of this field, where $\vec{B}$ is calculated with the expressions of classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 I. Danhoni , F. S. Navarra

Nuclei colliding at very high energy create a strong, quasi-classical gluon field during the initial phase of their interaction. We present an analytic calculation of the initial space-time evolution of this field in the limit of very high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-31 Joseph I. Kapusta , Guangyao Chen , Rainer J. Fries , Yang Li

Based on the new findings on the turbulent dynamo in \citet{XL16}, we examine the magnetic field amplification in the context of supernova remnants. Due to the strong ion-neutral collisional damping in the weakly-ionized interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a macroscopic manifestation of fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as anomalous transport current in the fluid dynamics framework. Experimental observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

A constant magnetic field in 3+1 and 2+1 dimensions is a strong catalyst of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, leading to the generation of a fermion mass even at the weakest attractive interaction between fermions. The essence of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 V. A. Miransky

Photons and dileptons are emitted throughout the evolution of the deconfined nuclear medium produced in heavy ion collisions. As such they can provide valuable information about the different phases of the medium, and complement hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jean-François Paquet