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Event-by-event fluctuations of magnetic and electric fields in heavy ion collisions

Adam Bzdak, +1 more
- 29 Mar 2012 - 
- Vol. 710, Iss: 1, pp 171-174
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In this paper, it was shown that fluctuating proton positions in the colliding nuclei generate very strong magnetic and electric fields in the direction both parallel and perpendicular to the reaction plane.
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This article is published in Physics Letters B.The article was published on 2012-03-29 and is currently open access. It has received 403 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Polarization density & Electric field.

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Quantum field theory in a magnetic field: From quantum chromodynamics to graphene and Dirac semimetals

TL;DR: In this article, a range of quantum field theoretical phenomena driven by external magnetic fields and their applications in relativistic systems and quasirelativistic condensed matter ones, such as graphene and Dirac/Weyl semimetals, are reviewed.
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Chiral magnetic and vortical effects in high-energy nuclear collisions—A status report

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an elementary introduction into the physics of anomalous chiral effects, to describe the current status of experimental studies in heavy ion physics, and outline the future work, both in experiment and theory, needed to eliminate the existing uncertainties in the interpretation of the data.
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Chiral Magnetic and Vortical Effects in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions --- A Status Report

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an elementary introduction into the physics of anomalous chiral effects, to describe the current status of experimental studies in heavy ion physics, and outline the future work, both in experiment and theory, needed to eliminate the existing uncertainties in the interpretation of the data.
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Particle production in strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the origin and properties of electromagnetic fields produced in heavy-ion collisions and demonstrate by explicit analytical calculation that after dropping by about one-two orders of magnitude during the first fm/c of plasma expansion, it freezes out and lasts for as long as quark-gluon plasma lives.
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The Chiral Magnetic Effect and anomaly-induced transport

TL;DR: The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance as discussed by the authors, which is a macroscopic quantum effect.
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Estimate of the magnetic field strength in heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR: In this article, the magnetic field emerging in heavy-ion collisions has the magnitude of the order of $eB_y \sim 10^{-1} \cdot m_\pi^2$ for the SPS energy range and $b_y ǫ \sim m_ \pi^ 2$ for RHIC energies.
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Estimate of the magnetic field strength in heavy-ion collisions

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