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Dec 13 – 18, 2015
International Conference Centre Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Relativistic chiral magnetohydrodynamics and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields

Dec 16, 2015, 2:21 PM
21m
Level -1, Room 16 (International Conference Centre Geneva)

Level -1, Room 16

International Conference Centre Geneva

Speakers

Dr Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden University (NL)) Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

Description

If chiral (left-right) asymmetry is present in the plasma, the electric current, parallel to the magnetic field, appears. This is known as "*chiral magnetic effect*". We demonstrate that this effect changes the dynamics of the magnetized relativistic plasma and present the proper equations of chiral relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, containing a new, axion-like, degree of freedom. There results are relevant for generation and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields in the electroweak epoch and are applicable to other relativistic plasmas.

Primary authors

Dr Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden University (NL)) Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

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