Probing the topological charge in QCD matter via multiplicity updown asymmetry Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2018 The Author(s) Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide the possibility to study the topological charge in QCD matter through the event-by-event fluctuating net axial charge or nonequal numbers of left- and right-handed quarks they generate in the produced quarkgluon plasma. Based on the chiral kinetic approach for nearly massless quarks and antiquarks in the strong vorticity field produced along the normal direction of the reaction plane of non-central heavy ion collisions, we show that a unique signal for the topological charge in QCD matter can be identified from the asymmetric distribution of particles with momenta pointing to the upper and lower hemispheres of the reaction plane as a result of the fluctuating net axial charge.

published proceedings

  • Physics Letters B

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Sun, Y., & Ko, C. M.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Sun, Yifeng||Ko, Che Ming

publication date

  • February 2019