Monday, February 11, 2013

1302.2064 (Adrian Dumitru et al.)

Magnetic flux loop in high-energy heavy-ion collisions    [PDF]

Adrian Dumitru, Yasushi Nara, Elena Petreska
We consider the expectation value of a magnetic flux loop in the immediate forward light cone of collisions of heavy nuclei at high energies. Such collisions are characterized by a non-linear scale Q_s where color fields become strong. We find that loops of area greater than ~2/Q_s^2 exhibit area law behavior, which determines the scale of elementary flux excitations ("vortices"). We also estimate the magnetic string tension, sigma_M = 0.12/Q_s^2. By the time t ~ 1/Q_s even small loops satisfy an area law while substantial magnetic fields remain only at large distances. We describe corrections to the propagator of semi-hard gluons at very early times in the background of fluctuating magnetic fields.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2064

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