Effects of magnetic fields on the quark–gluon plasma
Sep 6, 2014
6 pages
Part of Proceedings, 24th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2014) : Darmstadt, Germany, May 19-24, 2014, 752-757
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- Nucl.Phys.A 931 (2014) 752-757
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- , 752-757
- Quark Matter 2014
- Published: Sep 6, 2014
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
In this talk, the response of the thermal QCD medium to external (electro)magnetic fields is studied using continuum extrapolated lattice results at physical quark masses. The magnetic susceptibility of QCD is calculated, revealing a strong paramagnetic response at high temperatures. This paramagnetism is shown to result in an anisotropic squeezing of the quark–gluon plasma in non-central heavy-ion collisions, implying a sizeable contribution to the elliptic flow. Another aspect is the magnetic response of topologically non-trivial domains to the magnetic field. We quantify this effect on the lattice and compare the results to a simple model estimate.- Quark–gluon plasma
- Electromagnetic fields
- Elliptic flow
- Chiral magnetic effect
- quark gluon: plasma
- electromagnetic field
- elliptic flow
- magnetic field: effect
- magnetic field: chiral
- effect: magnetic
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