Conference paper

Editor list: Faessler, A

Publication year: 1996

Pages: 395-404

Journal: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

Volume number: 36

ISSN: 0146-6410

ISBN: 0-08-042887-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6410(96)00043-9

Conference: International School of Nuclear Physics

Publisher: Elsevier

Title of series: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

Abstract: 
In very energetic heavy ion collisions it is expected that chiral symmetry is temporarily restored, If the underlying QCD vacuum changes its structure rather suddenly, the transition is accompanied by a spontaneous and nonperturbative production of quark pairs. As an additional particularly interesting nonequilibrium phenomena, real gluons are partially decaying during such a chiral transition, A new and intuitive reasoning of Bloch-Nordsieck cancellation of IR singular contributions will be given, The total number of produced quarks is calculated and found to be quite sizeable. For the future collider experiments such effects could give rise to a significant contribution to the total number of quark pairs created in the preequilibrium stage.

Harvard Citation style: Greiner, C. (1996) Quark pair production in a rapid chiral phase transition, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 36, pp. 395-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6410(96)00043-9

APA Citation style: Greiner, C. (1996). Quark pair production in a rapid chiral phase transition. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 36, 395-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6410(96)00043-9