Biomedical subjects

J I Kapusta

Publications and source records attributed to J I Kapusta.

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PubMed2004

Neutrino superfluidity.

It is shown that Dirac-type neutrinos display BCS superfluidity for any nonzero mass. The Cooper pairs are formed by attractive scalar Higgs boson exchange between left- and right-handed neutrinos; in the standard SU(2) x U(1) theory, right-handed neutrinos do not couple to any other boson. The value of the gap, the critical temperature, and the Pippard coherence length are calculated for arbitrary values of the neutrino mass and chemical potential. Although such a superfluid could conceivably exist, detecting it would be a major challenge.

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PubMed2002

Collective deceleration of ultrarelativistic nuclei and creation of quark-gluon plasma.

We propose a unified space-time picture of baryon stopping and quark-gluon plasma creation in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. It is assumed that the highly Lorentz contracted nuclei are decelerated by the coherent color field which is formed between them after they pass through each other. This process continues until the field is neutralized by the Schwinger mechanism. Conservation of energy and momentum allow us to calculate the energy losses of the nuclear slabs and the initial energy density of the quark-gluon plasma.

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PubMed2001

Is anomalous production of omega and omega; evidence for disoriented chiral condensates?

No conventional picture of nucleus-nucleus collisions has yet been able to explain the abundance of Omega and Omega; hadrons in central collisions between Pb nuclei at 158A GeV at the CERN SPS. We argue that this is evidence that they are produced as topological defects arising from the formation of disoriented chiral condensates with an average domain size of about 2 fm.

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