Nuclear
Physics Colloquium
Location:
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Physics Building, Seminar Room PHYS
2.116
Time: Thursday, November 6, 4:30-5:30pm (s.t.) (plus
10min for discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Kinetic Theory of Chiral
Relativistic Plasmas
Juan Torres-Rincon
(SUBATECH, Nantes)
I
will present recent results on the kinetic theory description of
relativistic plasmas of massless fermions. I will introduce the
semiclassical equations of motion for chiral fermions and the transport
equation of a QED plasma at high temperature. Using this approach, the
parity-even sector reproduces the standard results of the
hard-thermal-loop action. In the parity-odd sector, I will show how the
axial anomaly and the chiral magnetic effect can be obtained when the
effects of the Berry curvature are consistently introduced in the
equations of motion and in the fermion dispersion relation.
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