11–17 May 2025
Zipeng Bay Hall
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Estimate the magnetic field in heavy-ion collisions by virtual photon polarization and dilepton anisotropy

14 May 2025, 11:45
20m
Zipeng Bay Hall

Zipeng Bay Hall

Zipeng Mountain Guangyuan International Conference Center, Hefei, Anhui, China, 231201

Speaker

Minghua Wei (Anhui University of Science and Technology)

Description

The measurement of the magnetic field created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is challenging, due to the fact that the magnetic field decays so drastically that in a thermalized quark-gluon plasma the field strength becomes rather weak. By incorporating the weak magnetic effect into the medium, and especially into the production formalism of dileptons from the quark-gluon plasma, the effect of dilepton polarization is studied through the dilepton angular distribution. We find that the anisotropic coefficients in the dilepton spectrum are quite sensitive to the orientation and strength of the weak field. Accordingly, these coefficients provide ideal probes for the magnetic field in realistic experiments.

Ref: Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024) 5, 054024

Authors

Li Yan (Fudan University) Minghua Wei (Anhui University of Science and Technology)

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