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Chiral effects in astrophysics and cosmology

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-12-22 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We review recent progress of the studies of these chiral effects in high-energy astrophysics, such as pulsar kicks, magnetars, and core-collapse supernovae, and early Universe cosmology, such as the primordial magnetic field, baryogenesis, and chiral gravitational waves. We also provide a pedagogical introduction to the chiral effects and low-energy effective theories to describe them in and out of equilibrium -- the chiral (magneto)hydrodynamics, chiral kinetic theory, and chiral radiation transport theory for neutrinos.

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@article{arxiv.2207.09184,
  title  = {Chiral effects in astrophysics and cosmology},
  author = {Kohei Kamada and Naoki Yamamoto and Di-Lun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09184},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

76 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revisions, version to appear in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

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