Anomalous chirality fluctuations in the initial stage of heavy ion collisions and parity odd bubbles

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02630-8zbMATH Open0998.81548arXivhep-ph/0109253OpenAlexW2034299502MaRDI QIDQ699185FDOQ699185

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 6 October 2002

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute numerically the topological charge distribution in the initial stage of a high energy heavy ion collision. This charge distribution is generated by Chern-Simons number fluctuations associated with the dynamics of strong classical fields in the initial state. The distribution is found to be quite narrow at RHIC and LHC energies reflecting a small value of the topological susceptibility. Thus the effective potential of classical fields is shallow in the $heta$-direction likely creating favorable conditions for the subsequent generation of P-odd bubbles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0109253

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons number fluctuationsstrict boost invariancetopological charge distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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