Hydrogen-like Atoms as Angstrom-scale Muon detectors

ORAL

Abstract

We estimate the number of different exotic hydrogen-like atoms produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. WE argue that such atoms can be thought of as Angstrom-scale muon detectors, allowing one to unveil the shine of the quark-gluon plasma that is buried in the background, by inferring the single lepton spectra where direct measurements are not feasible.

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Authors

  • Agnes Mocsy

    • Pratt Institute
    • Pratt Institute and Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Mauricio Martinez Guerrero

    • University Santiago de Compestela, Spain