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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number03012
JournalEPJ Web of Conferences
Volume158
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Oct 2017
Event23rd International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, QFTHEP 2017 - Yaroslavl, Russian Federation
Duration: 26 Jun 20173 Jul 2017

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  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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