Quark Pair Production in the Chiral Phase Transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The production of quarks and antiquarks during a sudden restoration of chiral symmetry, as it might occur in very energetic heavy ion collisions, is considered. If gluons are already present they can assist additively to the overall production: real gluons are partially decaying during such a chiral transition. The total number of produced quarks is calculated and found to be quite sizeable. It is speculated that such a phenomenon could give rise to a significant contribution to the overall quark pair creation in the preequilibrium stage of the heavy ion collision.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406261,
title = {Quark Pair Production in the Chiral Phase Transition},
author = {Carsten Greiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406261},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, three figures, DUKE-TH-94-71