Nuclear
Physics Colloquium
Location: Physics
Building, PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, June 26, 4:30-5:30pm (s.t.) (plus
10min for discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Relativistic
matter in a magnetic field: a new face of the chiral anomaly
Volodya Miransky (Western
University, London, Ontario, Canada and Physics Department, Goethe
University, Frankfurt)
Collisions
between heavy nuclei at the RHIC collider produce some of the strongest
magnetic fields that can be generated under laboratory conditions. The
recent experiments indicate the existence of C, CP, and time reversal
violation effects in hot relativistic matter produced at RHIC.
Theoretical works suggested that these effects are generated by a strong
QCD dynamics in relativistic matter in a magnetic field. It has been
recently argued that this dynamics is intimately connected with some new
features of the chiral anomaly. I will describe these features and the
latest results in their experimental studies.
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