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Chiral vortaic effect and neutron asymmetries at NICA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-23 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the possibility of testing experimentally signatures of P-odd effects related with the vorticity of the medium. The Chiral Vortaic Effect is generalized to the case of conserved charges different from the electric one. In the case of baryonic charge and chemical potential such effect should manifest itself in neutron asymmetries at the NICA accelerator complex measured by the MPD detector. The required accuracy may be achieved in a few months of accelerator running. We also discuss polarization of the hyperons and P-odd correlations of particle momenta (handedness) as probes of vorticity.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1331,
  title  = {Chiral vortaic effect and neutron asymmetries at NICA},
  author = {Oleg Rogachevsky and Alexander Sorin and Oleg Teryaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1331},
  year   = {2010}
}

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LaTeX, 10 pages, 3 figures (V2: new figure and comments added)