17–18 Jan 2015
Building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology
Europe/Zurich timezone

Quantum flavor kinetics and chemical freeze-out

17 Jan 2015, 15:15
25m
107 (Building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology)

107

Building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology

Warsaw University of Technology Central Campus ul. Koszykowa 75 00-662 Warszawa

Speaker

David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)

Description

We present current status of a quantum kinetic formulation of the chemical equilibration process in dense hadronic matter at the hadronization transition. Delocalization of hadron wave functions at the Mott-Anderson transition (where their binding energies vanish) lead to a divergence of scattering lengths and critical enhancement of rearrangement collisions between hadrons. We exemplify this for different meson-meson scattering processes from light (pi-pi scattering) to heavy flavors (charmonium dissociation). On this basis we suggest that chemical freeze-out has to be correlated with (partial) chiral symmetry restoration.

Author

David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw)

Co-authors

Mr Aleksandr Dubinin (University of Wroclaw) Prof. Ludwik Turko (University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland)

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