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))