Electromagnetic bremsstrahlung and energy loss in chiral medium

Abstract

We study electromagnetic radiation by a fast particle carrying electric charge in chiral medium. The medium is homogeneous and isotropic and supports the chiral magnetic current which renders the fermion and photon states unstable. The instability manifests as the chirality-dependent resonances in the bremsstrahlung cross section, which enhance the energy loss in the chiral medium. We compute the corresponding cross sections in the single scattering approximation and derive the energy loss in the high energy approximation.

Comments: 19 pages, 3 figures; v2: a technical issue with fig 1 fixed