Narrowpeaks in heavy-ion collisions and a possible new phase of QED
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (9), 2876-2879
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.2876
Abstract
Motivated by the otherwise inexplicable peaks observed in heavy-ion collisions at GSI, we postulate the existence of a new phase of QED. The transition to this new phase is induced by the presence of unusual background electromagnetic field environments. Strong-coupling calculations of the spectrum of confined QED are reported, and the masses fit well with the observed peaks.
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