Observing spontaneous strong parity violation in heavy-ion collisions

2001/09/26 by E. Finch, A. Chikanian, L. E. Finch +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.65.014908

published as Phys.Rev.C65:014908,2002

arxiv created 2001/09/26 · openalex publication_date 2001/12/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We discuss the problem of observing spontaneous parity and CP violation in collision systems. We discuss and propose observables which may be used in heavy-ion collisions to observe such violations, as well as event-by-event methods to analyze the data. Finally, we discuss simple Monte Carlo models of these CP-violating effects which we have used to develop our techniques and from which we derive rough estimates of sensitivities to signals that may be seen at the relativistic heavy-ion collider.

Citations

• Global aspects of current algebra

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