Turning up and down strong magnetic fields in relativistic nuclear collisions
I show that the average transverse momentum, 〈pt〉, of the hadrons emitted in relativistic nuclear collisions can be used as a “knob” to control the strength of the magnetic field induced by the spectator and the participant protons over the overlap region. I thus argue that any observable sensitive...
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doaj-ba9285e3fc884480beb58d0abdd6161d2020-12-09T04:14:27ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932020-12-01811135915Turning up and down strong magnetic fields in relativistic nuclear collisionsGiuliano Giacalone0Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Institut de physique théorique, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FranceI show that the average transverse momentum, 〈pt〉, of the hadrons emitted in relativistic nuclear collisions can be used as a “knob” to control the strength of the magnetic field induced by the spectator and the participant protons over the overlap region. I thus argue that any observable sensitive to this magnetic field is nontrivially correlated with 〈pt〉 at a given collision centrality.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320307188 |
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Turning up and down strong magnetic fields in relativistic nuclear collisions |
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Turning up and down strong magnetic fields in relativistic nuclear collisions |
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Turning up and down strong magnetic fields in relativistic nuclear collisions |
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Physics Letters B |
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I show that the average transverse momentum, 〈pt〉, of the hadrons emitted in relativistic nuclear collisions can be used as a “knob” to control the strength of the magnetic field induced by the spectator and the participant protons over the overlap region. I thus argue that any observable sensitive to this magnetic field is nontrivially correlated with 〈pt〉 at a given collision centrality. |
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