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arxiv: 1402.4174 · v3 · pith:HGHO3VOLnew · submitted 2014-02-17 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· nucl-th

Chiral Langevin theory for non-Abelian plasmas

classification ✦ hep-th hep-phnucl-th
keywords plasmaschiralinstabilitynon-abeliananomalousimbalanceplasmascale
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Charged plasmas with chirality imbalance are unstable and tend to reduce the imbalance. This chiral plasma instability is, however, not captured in (anomalous) hydrodynamics for high-temperature non-Abelian plasmas. We derive a Langevin-type classical effective theory with anomalous parity-violating effects for non-Abelian plasmas that describes the chiral plasma instability at the magnetic scale. We show that the time scale of the instability is of order $[g^4 T \ln(1/g)]^{-1}$ at weak coupling.

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