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