Isospin and isospin/strangeness correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions
| dc.creator | Mekjian, Aram | |
| dc.date | 2007-12-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:13:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:13:42Z | |
| dc.description | A fundamental symmetry of nuclear and particle physics is isospin whose third component is the Gell-Mann/Nishijima expression I(z)=Q-(B+S)/2 . The role of isospin symmetry in relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied. An isospin I(z), strangeness S correlation is shown to be a direct and simple measure of flavor correlations, vanishing in a Qg phase of uncorrelated flavors in both symmetric N=Z and asymmetric N not equal to Z systems. By contrast, in a hadron phase, a I(z)/S correlation exists as long as the electrostatic charge chemical potential mu(Q)does not equal 0 as in N not equal to Z asymmetric systems. A parallel is drawn with a Zeeman effect which breaks a spin degeneracy | |
| dc.description | 11 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1778 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1778 | |
| dc.identifier | Eur.Phys.J.80:22002,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1209/0295-5075/80/22002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191808 | |
| dc.subject | Nuclear Theory | |
| dc.title | Isospin and isospin/strangeness correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions | |
| dc.type | text |