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.
Primary author
Xu-Guang Huang
(Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Co-author
Wei-Tian Deng
(Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
