https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7099-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Transverse expansion of hot magnetized Bjorken flow in heavy ion collisions
1
Department of Physics, Hakim Sabzevari University (HSU), P.O.Box 397, Sabzevar, Iran
2
Department of Physics, University of Turin and INFN, Turin, Via P. Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy
* e-mail: afarzaneh@hsu.ac.ir
Received:
1
January
2019
Accepted:
2
July
2019
Published online:
22
July
2019
We argue that the existence of an inhomogeneous external magnetic field can lead to radial flow in transverse plane. Our aim is to show how the introduction of a magnetic field generalizes the Bjorken flow. We investigate the effect of an inhomogeneous weak external magnetic field on the transverse expansion of in-viscid fluid created in high energy nuclear collisions. In order to simplify our calculation and compare with Gubser model, we consider the fluid under investigation to be produced in central collisions, at small impact parameter; azimuthal symmetry has been considered. In our model, we assume an inhomogeneous external magnetic field following the power-law decay in proper time and having radial inhomogeneity perpendicular to the radial velocity of the in-viscid fluid in the transverse plane; then the space time evolution of the transverse expansion of the fluid is obtained. We also show how the existence of an inhomogeneous external magnetic field modifies the energy density. Finally we use the solutions for the transverse velocity and energy density in the presence of a weak magnetic field, to estimate the transverse momentum spectrum of protons and pions emerging from the Magneto-hydrodynamic solutions.
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