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Exotic meson decays in the environment with chiral imbalance

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

An emergence of Local Parity Breaking (LPB) in central heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at high energies is discussed. LPB in the fireball can be produced by a difference between the number densities of right- and left-handed chiral fermions (Chiral Imbalance) which is implemented by a chiral (axial) chemical potential. The effective meson lagrangian induced by QCD is extended to the medium with Chiral Imbalance and the properties of light scalar and pseudoscalar mesons (π,a0\pi, a_0) are analyzed. It is shown that exotic decays of scalar mesons arise as a result of mixing of π \pi and a0 a_0 vacuum states in the presence of chiral imbalance. The pion electromagnetic formfactor obtains an unusual parity-odd supplement which generates a photon polarization asymmetry in pion polarizability. We hope that the above pointed indications of LPB can be identified in experiments on LHC, RHIC, CBM FAIR and NICA accelerators.

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@article{arxiv.1710.01760,
  title  = {Exotic meson decays in the environment with chiral imbalance},
  author = {A. A. Andrianov and V. A. Andrianov and D. Espriu and A. V. Iakubovich and A. E. Putilova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01760},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, talk given at XXIII International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Yaroslavl', June 26 - July 3, 2017 and at IV Russian-Spanish Congress: Particle, Nuclear, Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, JINR Dubna, September 4-8, 2017