The Chern-Simons diffusion rate in improved holographic QCD

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2013)119MaRDI QIDQ302730zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Umut Gürsoy, Ioannis Iatrakis, Elias Kiritsis, F. Nitti, Andy O'bannon

Publication date 12 August 2016

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3894

zbMATH Keywords

holography and quark-gluon plasmasQCDquark-gluon plasmasolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: In (3+1)-dimensional SU(Nc) Yang-Mills (YM) theory, the Chern-Simons diffusion rate, Gamma_{CS}, is determined by the zero-momentum, zero-frequency limit of the retarded two-point function of the CP-odd operator tr[F ^ F], with F the YM field strength. The Chern-Simons diffusion rate is a crucial ingredient for many CP-odd phenomena, including the chiral magnetic effect in the quark-gluon plasma. We compute Gamma_{CS} in the high-temperature, deconfined phase of Improved Holographic QCD, a refined holographic model for large-Nc YM theory. Our result for Gamma_{CS}/(sT), where s is entropy density and T is temperature, varies slowly at high T and increases monotonically as T approaches the transition temperature from above. We also study the retarded two-point function of tr[F ^ F] with non-zero frequency and momentum. Our results suggest that the CP-odd phenomena that may potentially occur in heavy ion collisions could be controlled by an excitation with energy on the order of the lightest axial glueball mass.

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