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Magnetohydrodynamics and charged currents in heavy ion collisions

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.creator Gürsoy, Umut
dc.creator Kharzeev, Dmitri
dc.creator Rajagopal, Krishna
dc.date 2022-07-08T16:03:28Z
dc.date 2021-10-27T20:05:24Z
dc.date 2022-07-08T16:03:28Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date 2019-06-18T12:52:05Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T19:51:56Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T19:51:56Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134522.2
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242034
dc.description © 2014 Elsevier B.V. The hot QCD matter produced in any heavy ion collision with a nonzero impact parameter is produced within a strong magnetic field. We study the imprint the magnetic fields produced in non-central heavy ion collisions leave on the azimuthal distributions and correlations of the produced charged hadrons. The magnetic field is time-dependent and the medium is expanding, which leads to the induction of charged currents due to the combination of Faraday and Hall effects. We find that these currents result in a charge-dependent directed flow v1 that is odd in rapidity and odd under charge exchange. It can be detected by measuring correlations between the directed flow of charged hadrons at different rapidities.
dc.format application/octet-stream
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier BV
dc.relation 10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSA.2014.09.039
dc.relation Nuclear Physics A
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.source arXiv
dc.title Magnetohydrodynamics and charged currents in heavy ion collisions
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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