Quark Matter 2012

Event-by-event generation of electromagnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions

16 Aug 2012, 16:00

2h

Regency 1/3 and Ambassador

Poster Correlations and fluctuations Poster Session Reception

Speaker

Xu-Guang Huang (Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Description

We compute the electromagnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions by using the HIJING model. Although after averaging over many events only the magnetic field perpendicular to the reaction plane is sizable, we find very strong electric and magnetic fields both parallel and perpendicular to the reaction plane on the event-by-event basis. We study the time evolution and the spatial distribution of these fields. In particular, the electromagnetic response of the quark-gluon plasma can give nontrivial evolution of the electromagnetic fields.