Exotic states in QED

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We suggest that electron and positron peaks seen in large-Z heavy-ion collisions originate in the decay of nontopological solitons consisting of a quasielectron and quasipositron which are formed in a new vacuum phase.

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Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 55-57

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.57.55

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 9.11

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Exotic states in QED

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