Transition Radiation as a Probe of the Chiral Anomaly

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2018-11-02
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Huang, Xu-Guang
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A fast charged particle crossing the boundary between chiral matter and vacuum radiates transition radiation. Its most remarkable features—the resonant behavior at a certain emission angle and the circular polarization of the spectrum—depend on the parameters of the chiral anomaly in a particular material or matter. Chiral transition radiation can be used to investigate the chiral anomaly in such diverse media as the quark-gluon plasma, Weyl semimetals, and axionic dark matter.

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This article is published as Huang, Xu-Guang, and Kirill Tuchin. "Transition Radiation as a Probe of the Chiral Anomaly." Physical Review Letters 121, no. 18 (2018): 182301. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.182301. Posted with permission.

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