23 research outputs found
Centrality dependence of photon yield and elliptic flow from gluon fusion and splitting induced by magnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
We compute the photon yield and elliptic flow coefficient in relativistic
heavy-ion collisions from gluon fusion and splitting processes induced by a
magnetic field for different centralities. The calculation accounts for the
intense magnetic field and the high gluon occupation number at early times. The
photon production induced by these process represents an excess contribution
over calculations without magnetic field effects. We compare this excess to the
difference between PHENIX data and recent hydrodynamic calculations for the
photon transverse momentum distribution and elliptic flow coefficient .
The time evolution of the field strength and reaction volume is computed using
UrQMD. We show that with reasonable values for the saturation scale, the
calculation helps to better describe the experimental results obtained at RHIC
energies for the lowest part of the transverse photon momentum at different
centralities.Comment: Expanded discussion. Version to appear in The European Physical
Journal
Electromagnetic coupling and transport in a topological insulator-graphene hetero-structure
The electromagnetic coupling between hetero-structures made of different
materials is of great interest, both from the perspective of discovering new
phenomena, as well as for its potential applications in novel devices. In this
work, we study the electromagnetic coupling of a hetero-structure made of a
topological insulator (TI) slab and a single graphene layer, where the later
presents a diluted concentration of ionized impurities. We explore the
topological effects of the magneto-electric polarizability (MEP) of the TI, as
well as its relative dielectric permittivity on the electrical conductivity in
graphene at low but finite temperatures.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figure
QED Fermions in a noisy magnetic field background
We consider the effects of a noisy magnetic field background over the fermion
propagator in QED, as an approximation to the spatial inhomogeneities that
would naturally arise in certain physical scenarios, such as heavy-ion
collisions or the quark-gluon plasma in the early stages of the evolution of
the Universe. We considered a classical, finite and uniform average magnetic
field background , subject
to white-noise spatial fluctuations with auto-correlation of magnitude
. By means of the Schwinger representation of the propagator in the
average magnetic field as a reference system, we used the replica formalism to
study the effects of the magnetic noise in the form of renormalized
quasi-particle parameters, leading to an effective charge and an effective
refraction index, that depend not only on the energy scale, as usual, but also
on the magnitude of the noise and the average field
Prompt photon yield and coefficient from gluon fusion induced by magnetic field in heavy-ion collision
We compute the production of prompt photons and the harmonic
coefficient in relativistic heavy-ion collisions induced by gluon fusion in the
presence of an intense magnetic field, during the early stages of the reaction.
The calculations take into account several parameters which are relevant to the
description of the experimental transverse momentum distribution, and elliptic
flow for RHIC and LHC energies. The main imput is the strength of the magnetic
field which varies in magnitude from 1 to 3 times the pion mass squared, and
allows the gluon fusion that otherwise is forbidden in the absence of the
field. The high gluon occupation number and the value of the saturation scale
also play an important role in our calculation, as well as a flow velocity and
geometrical factors. Our results support the idea that the origin of at least
some of the photon excess observed in heavy-ion experiments may arise from
magnetic field induced processes, and gives a good description of the
experimental data.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, conference paper from ISMD 201
Gluon polarization tensor and dispersion relation in a weakly magnetized medium
We study the polarization and dispersion properties of gluons moving within a
weakly magnetized background at one-loop order. To this end, we show two
alternative derivations of the charged fermion propagator in the weak field
expansion and use this expression to compute the lowest order magnetic field
correction to the gluon polarization tensor. We explicitly show that, in spite
of its cumbersome appearance, the gluon polarization tensor is transverse as
required by gauge invariance. We also show that none of the three polarization
modes develops a magnetic mass and that gluons propagate along the light cone,
non withstanding that Lorentz invariance is lost due to the presence of the
magnetic field. By comparing with the expression for the gluon polarization
tensor valid to all orders in the magnetic field, the existence of a second
solution, corresponding to a finite gluon mass, is shown to be spurious and an
artifact of the lowest order approximation in the field strength. We also study
the strength of the polarization modes for real gluons. We conclude that,
provided the spurious solutions are discarded, the lowest order approximation
to the gluon polarization and dispersion properties is good as long as the
field strength is small compared to the loop fermion mass.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. Ref.[35] was adde
Anisotropic photon emission from gluon fusion and splitting in a strong magnetic background I: The two-gluon one-photon vertex
Having in mind the pre-equilibrium stage in peripheral heavy-ion collisions
as a possible scenario for the production of electromagnetic radiation, we
compute the two-gluon one-photon vertex in the presence of an intense magnetic
field at one-loop order. The quarks in the loop are taken such that two of them
occupy the lowest Landau level, with the third one occupying the first exited
Landau level. When the field strength is the largest of the energy (squared)
scales, the tensor basis describing this vertex corresponds to two of the three
vector particles polarized in the longitudinal direction whereas the third one
is polarized in the transverse direction. However, when the photon energy is of
order or larger than the field strength, the explicit one-loop computation
contains extra tensor structures that spoil the properties of the basis,
compared to the case when the field strength is the largest of the energy
scales, which signals that the calculation is incomplete. Nevertheless, by
projecting the result onto the would-be basis, we show that the squared
amplitude for processes involving two gluons and one photon exhibits the
expected properties such as a preferred in-plane photon emission and a slightly
decreasing strength for an increasing magnetic field strength. We comment on
possible venues to improve the one-loop calculation that include accounting for
progressive occupation of the three quarks of the lowest and first excited
Landau levels such that, still working in the large field limit, a more
complete description can be achieved when the photon energy increases.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures. Part