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Main Author: Hanai, Sota
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16652
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contents We study collective excitations in a relativistic collisionless plasma composed of massless fermions subject to an external magnetic field. We include dynamical electromagnetism and fluctuations of the chiral charge, while maintaining a vanishing net chiral charge. Within the framework of chiral kinetic theory, we find that the chiral anomaly gives a correction to the transverse photon self-energy and that a novel type of dynamical screening can emerge. In the strong magnetic field limit, we also show that the collective mode has a gap using the lowest Landau level approximation. We further discuss implications of the anomalous dynamical screening for neutron star phenomenology.
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spellingShingle Anomalous Dynamical Screening of Relativistic Plasma in a Magnetic Field
Hanai, Sota
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
We study collective excitations in a relativistic collisionless plasma composed of massless fermions subject to an external magnetic field. We include dynamical electromagnetism and fluctuations of the chiral charge, while maintaining a vanishing net chiral charge. Within the framework of chiral kinetic theory, we find that the chiral anomaly gives a correction to the transverse photon self-energy and that a novel type of dynamical screening can emerge. In the strong magnetic field limit, we also show that the collective mode has a gap using the lowest Landau level approximation. We further discuss implications of the anomalous dynamical screening for neutron star phenomenology.
title Anomalous Dynamical Screening of Relativistic Plasma in a Magnetic Field
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16652