Spin-magnetohydrodynamics (B03)

• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 315477589

Spin-magnetohydrodynamics will study the role of spin, vorticity, and magnetic fields in the evolution of heavy-ion collisions and neutron-star mergers (NSMs). Non-central heavy-ion collisions create the most extreme conditions of fluid vorticity and magnetic fields in the Universe. These influence particle polarization and induce novel effects like the chiral magnetic effect (CME). The goal of this project is to derive a framework of magnetohydrodynamics coupled to hadronic transport including the dynamics of spin degrees of freedom, and to apply this to the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions, and to NSMs, under special consideration of novel phenomena like the CME.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 211: Strong-Interaction Matter under Extreme Conditions
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Hannah Elfner; Professor Dr. Luciano Rezzolla; Professor Dr. Dirk H. Rischke