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We study the gravitational field of a spinning radiation beam-pulse in a higher dimensional spacetime. We derive first the stress-energy tensor for such a beam in a flat spacetime and find the gravitational field generated by it in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Frolov , D. V. Fursaev

The gravitational metric tensor implies a variable dielectric tensor of vacuum around gravitational matter. The curved spacetime in general relativity is then associated with a polarizable vacuum. It is found that the number density of the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Xing-Hao Ye

The back reaction of gravitational perturbations in a homogeneous background is determined by an effective energy-momentum tensor quadratic in the perturbations. We show that this nonlinear feedback effect is important in the case of long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. R. Abramo , R. H. Brandenberger , V. M. Mukhanov

The two-point Green function of the massive scalar $(3+1)$-quantum field theory with $\lambda\phi^4$ interaction at finite temperature is evaluated up to the 2nd order of perturbation theory. The averaging on the vacuum fluctuations is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Bugrij , L. L. Jenkovszky , V. N. Shadura

Calculations of the polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ particles after fragmentation of a polarized quark produced in processes like $Z$-decay and deep inelastic polarized lepton scattering must include $\Lambda$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ashery , H. J. Lipkin

The corrections to the cosmological models induced by non-minimal coupling between scalar field and torsion are considered. To determine these corrections in explicit form, the power-law parametrization of these corrections are proposed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 I. V. Fomin , S. V. Chervon , L. K. Duchaniya , B. Mishra

We study the effective dynamics of an open scalar field interacting with a strongly-coupled two-dimensional rotating CFT plasma. The effective theory is determined by the real-time correlation functions of the thermal plasma. We employ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-10 Bidisha Chakrabarty , P. M. Aswin

We propose the weak magnetic effect, which emerges in quark-gluon plasma close to local thermal equilibrium as the dissipative correction to the quark phase space distribution function, as a novel contribution to the observed Lambda hyperon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-27 Jing-An Sun , Li Yan

We predict the polarization of Lambda and antiLambda hyperons in peripheral heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energy, based on the assumption of local thermodynamical equilibrium at freeze-out. The polarization vector is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 F. Becattini , L. Csernai , D. J. Wang

We present a \emph{Mathematica} notebook allowing for the symbolic calculation of the $3\times3$ dielectric tensor of a electron-beam plasma system in the fluid approximation. Calculation is detailed for a cold relativistic electron beam…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bret

Relying on the Luttinger-Ward theorem we derive a thermodynamically selfconsistent and scale independent approximation of the thermodynamic potential for the scalar $\phi^4$ theory in the tadpole approximation. The resulting thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Peshier , B. Kämpfer , O. P. Pavlenko , G. Soff

We consider preheating in the theory $1/4 \lambda \phi^4 + 1/2 g^2\phi^2\chi^2 $, where the classical oscillating inflaton field $\phi$ decays into $\chi$-particles and $\phi$-particles. The parametric resonance which leads to particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Patrick Greene , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Alexei Starobinsky

Tensor non-Gaussianity represents an important future probe of the physics of inflation. Inspired by recent works, we elaborate further on the possibility of significant primordial tensor non-Gaussianities sourced by extra fields during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

In this paper, we establish a unified parameterized framework for analyzing the polarization modes of gravitational waves in the general metric theory (gravity is only described by the metric) and the general scalar-tensor theory (gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Xiao Liu

Astrophysical plasmas are typically magnetized, with the Larmor radii of the charged particles many orders of magnitude smaller than their collisional mean free paths. The fundamental properties of such plasmas, e.g., conduction and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Komarov , I. Khabibullin , E. Churazov , A. Schekochihin

The analytical structure of a static transverse component of polarization tensor in complex momentum plane is numerically studied, which is holographically determined by a Einstein-Maxwell theory in asymptotically $D=3+1$ dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Lei Yin , Jialin Gao

Electrostatic turbulence in weakly collisional, magnetized plasma can be interpreted as a cascade of entropy in phase space, which is proposed as a universal mechanism for dissipation of energy in magnetized plasma turbulence. When the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Tatsuno , W. Dorland , A. A. Schekochihin , G. G. Plunk , M. Barnes , S. C. Cowley , G. G. Howes

In the bibliography a certain confusion arises in what regards to the classification of the gravitational theories into scalar-tensor theories and general relativity with a scalar field either minimally or non-minimally coupled to matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-27 Israel Quiros , Roberto De Arcia , Ricardo García-Salcedo , Tame Gonzalez , Francisco Antonio Horta-Rangel

We use gauge/gravity correspondence to study the gravitational reheating of strongly coupled gauge theories in the rapid exit from the long inflationary (de Sitter) phase. We estimate the maximal reheating temperature of holographic models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Alex Buchel

Understanding and interpretation of the dynamics of ultrarelativistic plasma is a challenge, which calls for the development of methods for \textit{in situ} probing the plasma dynamical characteristics. We put forward a new method,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel