Chirality, magnetic field and parity violation in hot QCD matter

23 May 2011, 15:00
20m
Salon Ravel AB (Imperial Palace)

Salon Ravel AB

Imperial Palace

Parallel New theoretical developments Theory developments

Speaker

Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook and BNL)

Description

An overview of the recent progress in understanding the interplay of quantum anomalies, chirality, and magnetic field in the dynamics of QCD fluid will be presented. The current theoretical description of the chiral magnetic and chiral vortical effects within anomalous magnetohydrodynamics will be described. It allows a quantitative approach to these phenomena in heavy ion collisions, and the first results from such studies will be reviewed. The existing and future experimental measurements needed to establish or refute the local violation of parity in hot QCD matter will be discussed.

Primary author

Prof. Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook and BNL)

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