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Anomalous kaon correlations in heavy-ion collisions at LHC

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Abstract

As the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions expands and cools, the approximate chiral symmetry is broken leading to formation of chiral condensates. The energy released in this condensation could lead to anomalous correlations in isospin fluctuations. Recently, the ALICE collaboration reported measuring such anomalous correlations in the kaon sector. In this talk I will discuss this measurement and show how less exotic statistical models cannot reproduce it. Energy from the strange quark condensation could be sufficient to explain it.

Publication: arxiv:2210.03257

Presenters

  • Mayank Singh

    University of Minnesota

Authors

  • Joseph I Kapusta

    University of Minnesota

  • Scott E Pratt

    Michigan State University

  • Mayank Singh

    University of Minnesota