Published March 9, 2002
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Journal article
Missing symmetries, unseen quarks and the physical vacuum
Description
The author discusses the connections of symmetry breaking and quark confinement with the structure of the physical vacuum. In this connection he considers analogies between QED superconductivity and the QCD vacuum. Finally he discusses in this framework the experimental results on ππ interferometry in collisions of an 16O beam with 200 GeV/nucleon on an Au target. (HSI)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. A
- Journal Volume
- 538
- Series
- Nucl. Phys., A.
- Journal Page Range
- 3c-14c
- ISSN
- 0375-9474
- CODEN
- NUPAB
Conference
- Title
- 4. international conference on nucleus-nucleus collisions (NN-4).
- Dates
- 10-14 Jun 1991.
- Place
- Kanazawa (Japan).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23050426
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BAG MODEL; GOLD 197 TARGET; INTERFERENCE; OXYGEN 16 REACTIONS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PIONIZATION; PIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEV RANGE 01-10; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; DIAGRAMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESONS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; TARGETS; TEV RANGE