Astrophysical Implications of Strong CP Violation

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• Pietro Faccioli, Trento
• Wednesday 20 January 2010, 16:15-17:15
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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In this seminar we shall analyze the response of the QCD vacuum to an external magnetic field, in the case in which CP is broken by the strong interaction. We show that, due to the presence of QCD instantons, the external magnetic field generates an anomalous electric dipole moment of the vacuum. We study the magnitude of this effect induced by the weak cosmological large-scale magnetic fields, and by the strong magnetic fields permeating the vicinity of neutron stars. We show that the polarization induced by the magnetic field of a magnetar could accelerate electric charges up to energies of the order ϑ 10^3 TeV.

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