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Hydrodynamics and the detection of the QCD axial anomaly in heavy ion collisions

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We consider the experimental implications of the axial current triangle diagram anomaly in a hydrodynamic description of high density QCD. We propose a signal of an enhanced production of spin-excited hadrons in the direction of the rotation axis in off-central heavy ion collisions.

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  1. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Boaz Keren-Zur & Yaron Oz

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Keren-Zur, B., Oz, Y. Hydrodynamics and the detection of the QCD axial anomaly in heavy ion collisions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 6 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2010)006

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