Speaker
Patrycja Słoń
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Description
Various interesting phenomena have been predicted to occur in a quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions due to a strong magnetic field which is also generated in these collisions. However, none of these predictions has been convincingly confirmed experimentally yet. So, the question is why? Our aim is to systematically discuss the problem of magnetic field generation. In particular, we argue that the currents induced in the plasma, which have been expected to sustain the magnetic field throughout the plasma lifetime, are much smaller than expected. This happens because the quark-gluon plasma is initially mostly composed of gluons while electrically charged quarks appear with a delay.
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Author
Patrycja Słoń
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Co-author
Stanisław Mrówczyński
(National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
