Effect of intense magnetic fields on reduced-magnetohydrodynamics evolution in sNN=200 GeV Au + Au collisions

Victor Roy, Shi Pu, Luciano Rezzolla, and Dirk H. Rischke
Phys. Rev. C 96, 054909 – Published 30 November 2017

Abstract

We investigate the effect of large magnetic fields on the (2+1)-dimensional reduced-magnetohydrodynamical expansion of hot and dense nuclear matter produced in sNN=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. For the sake of simplicity, we consider the case where the magnetic field points in the direction perpendicular to the reaction plane. We also consider this field to be external, with energy density parametrized as a two-dimensional Gaussian. The width of the Gaussian along the directions orthogonal to the beam axis varies with the centrality of the collision. The dependence of the magnetic field on proper time (τ) for the case of zero electrical conductivity of the QGP is parametrized following Deng et al. [Phys. Rev. C 85, 044907 (2012)], and for finite electrical conductivity following Tuchin [Phys. Rev. C 88, 024911 (2013)]. We solve the equations of motion of ideal hydrodynamics for such an external magnetic field. For collisions with nonzero impact parameter we observe considerable changes in the evolution of the momentum eccentricities of the fireball when comparing the case when the magnetic field decays in a conducting QGP medium and when no magnetic field is present. The elliptic-flow coefficient v2 of π is shown to increase in the presence of an external magnetic field and the increment in v2 is found to depend on the evolution and the initial magnitude of the magnetic field.

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  • Received 19 June 2017
  • Revised 27 October 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.054909

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Nuclear PhysicsFluid Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

Victor Roy1, Shi Pu2, Luciano Rezzolla3,4, and Dirk H. Rischke3,5

  • 1National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, 752050 Odisha, India
  • 2Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 4Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 5Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China

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Vol. 96, Iss. 5 — November 2017

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