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Discovery of Quark-Gluon-Plasma: Strangeness Diaries
Johann Rafelski
We look from a theoretical perspective at the new phase of matter, quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the new form of nuclear matter created at high temperature and pressure. Here I retrace…
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Electron EM-mass melting in strong fields
Stefan Evans, Johann Rafelski
We study the response of the electron mass to an externally applied electrical field. As a consequence of nonlinear electromagnetic (EM) effective action, the mass of a particle di…
hep-ph2019★ 1 cited
Lepton Number and Expansion of the Universe
Cheng Tao Yang, Jeremiah Birrell, Johann Rafelski
We show that the non-integer effective number of neutrinos can be understood as an effect of lepton asymmetry in the early Universe carried by the Dirac ne…