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The transport properties of dense stellar electron-proton plasma is studied following an exact relativistic formalism in presence of strong quantizing magnetic field. The variation of transport coefficients with magnetic field are found to…
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Recent experiments have found spin alignment of $J/\psi$ with respect to event plane in heavy ion collisions, suggesting a medium effect that is spin dependent. We propose a possible mechanism with polarized dissociation from the motion of…
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We show that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons. We demonstrate that this takes place in all strongly coupled, large-Nc plasmas with a gravity dual. The energy…
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