https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01628-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Collective phenomena in chirally imbalanced medium
1
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF Bidhannagar, 700064, Kolkata, India
2
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, 700064, Kolkata, India
3
Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, 400085, Mumbai, India
Received:
27
February
2025
Accepted:
27
June
2025
Published online:
24
July
2025
We calculate the gluon polarization tensor for a chirally imbalanced plasma using hard thermal loop approximation in the real time formulation of thermal field theory. The dispersion relations obtained from the poles of the effective gluon propagator are solved numerically as well as analytically in appropriate limiting cases. It is seen that the degenerate transverse modes split into left and right handed circularly polarized modes. We also compute imaginary poles of the propagator which signal the presence of instability in the plasma. Relevant time scales for development of such instabilities are discussed in detail. Furthermore, we compute both the real and imaginary parts of the static heavy-quark potential in the chirally imbalanced plasma and argue that quarkonium suppression is enhanced due to the combined effects of a reduced debye screening length and an increased decay width. In addition, we calculate the gluon spectral density, sum rules and residues for various cases, providing a comprehensive understanding of the collective behaviour of the medium.
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