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Second-order chiral kinetic theory from Wigner function approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a systematic method to derive the chiral kinetic theory from the Wigner equations based on quantum field theory order by order. We take special effort to derive the chiral kinetic theory in seven-dimensional phase space from the eight-dimensional chiral kinetic theory. We give the seven-dimensional chiral kinetic theory up to second order of semiclassical expansion. We find some new second-order contributions compared with other approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2409.15878,
  title  = {Second-order chiral kinetic theory from Wigner function approach},
  author = {Shi-Zheng Yang and Shu-Xiang Ma and Jian-Hua Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15878},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages

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