期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2023)229
关键词
Lattice QCD; Lattice Quantum Field Theory; Phase Transitions; Thermal Field Theory
This work investigates the influence of magnetic fields on QCD medium in off-central heavy-ion collisions. By simulating the behavior of quarks in inhomogeneous magnetic fields, it is found that the magnetic field leads to non-trivial spatial features in the QCD medium, especially around the transition temperature. In addition, a leading-order chiral perturbation theory for the inhomogeneous background is constructed and compared with lattice results at low temperature.
Off-central heavy-ion collisions are known to feature magnetic fields with magnitudes and characteristic gradients corresponding to the scale of the strong interactions. In this work, we employ equilibrium lattice simulations of the underlying theory, QCD, involving similar inhomogeneous magnetic field profiles to achieve a better understanding of this system. We simulate three flavors of dynamical staggered quarks with physical masses at a range of magnetic fields and temperatures, and extrapolate the results to the continuum limit. Analyzing the impact of the field on the quark condensate and the Polyakov loop, we find non-trivial spatial features that render the QCD medium qualitatively different as in the homogeneous setup, especially at temperatures around the transition. In addition, we construct leading-order chiral perturbation theory for the inhomogeneous background and compare its prediction to our lattice results at low temperature. Our findings will be useful to benchmark effective theories and low-energy models of QCD for a better description of peripheral heavy-ion collisions.
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