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Hydrodynamics and the Detection of the QCD Axial Anomaly in Heavy Ion Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-20 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We consider the experimental implications of the axial current triangle diagram anomaly in a hydrodynamic description of high density QCD. We propose a signal of an enhanced production of spin-excited hadrons in the direction of the rotation axis in off-central heavy ion collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1002.0804,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics and the Detection of the QCD Axial Anomaly in Heavy Ion Collisions},
  author = {Boaz Keren-Zur and Yaron Oz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0804},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages, 19 figures; v2: refs added, minor changes to the plots; v3, comments added