Friday, November 30, 2012

1211.6835 (Brett McInnes)

Shearing Black Holes and Scans of the Quark Matter Phase Diagram    [PDF]

Brett McInnes
Basic kinematic considerations strongly suggest that effects arising from quark polarization should be seen in peripheral heavy ion collisions producing very high angular momentum densities. No such effects have yet been observed in collisions corresponding to regions of the quark matter phase diagram where the quark chemical potential is small, but there is reason to hope that they may be in future. Using the holography of planar AdS black holes with angular momentum and electric charge, we suggest that the time available for these effects to develop varies quite rapidly across the quark matter phase diagram, in a way which might, in principle, be investigated through heavy ion collisions at future facilities such as FAIR and NICA.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6835

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