https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715803012
Exotic meson decays in the environment with chiral imbalance
1 Faculty of Physics, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia, and
2 Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciéncies del Cosmos (ICCUB),Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franqués 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
* e-mail: andrianov@icc.ub.edu
** e-mail: v.andriano@rambler.ru
*** e-mail: espriu@icc.ub.edu
**** e-mail: a.yakubovich@outlook.com
† e-mail: alyput@gmail.com
Published online: 24 October 2017
An emergence of Local Parity Breaking (LPB) in central heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at high energies is discussed. LPB in the fireball can be produced by a difference between the number densities of right- and left-handed chiral fermions (Chiral Imbalance) which is implemented by a chiral (axial) chemical potential. The effective meson lagrangian induced by QCD is extended to the medium with Chiral Imbalance and the properties of light scalar and pseudoscalar mesons (π, α0) are analyzed. It is shown that exotic decays of scalar mesons arise as a result of mixing of π and α0 vacuum states in the presence of chiral imbalance. The pion electromagnetic formfactor obtains an unusual parity-odd supplement which generates a photon polarization asymmetry in pion polarizability. We hope that the above pointed indications of LPB can be identified in experiments on LHC, RHIC, CBM FAIR and NICA accelerators.
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