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Magnetohydrodynamics and charge identified directed flow in heavy ion collisions

  • Utrecht University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Strong magnetic fields produced in any non-central heavy ion collision are expected to affect the dynamics of the hot QCD matter produced in this collision. 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 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 by employing an analytic solution to hydrodynamics combined with the electromagnetic effects in a perturbative fashion. We use the Cooper-Frye freeze-out procedure on an isothermal freeze-out surface to obtain the azimuthal hadron distributions. We find that the charged currents induced by the present of the electromagnetic fields 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, (μ±1 (y1)μ±1 (y2)).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationXIth Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum
EditorsNora Brambilla, Sergei Kolevatov, Alexander Andrianov, Victor Kim
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735413481
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 22 2016
Event11th Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum - Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: Sep 8 2014Sep 12 2014

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1701
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference11th Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySaint Petersburg
Period09/8/1409/12/14

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