Observing Disoriented Chiral Condensates

1993/09/07 by James D. Bjorken, Bjorken, J. D., K. L. Kowalski +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9309235

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Abstract

We speculate that, in very high energy hadronic collisions, large fireballs may be produced with interiors which have anomalous chiral order parameters. Such a process would result in radiation of pions with distinctive momentum and isospin distributions, and may provide an explanation of Centauro and related phenomena in cosmic-ray events. The phenomenology of such events is reviewed, with emphasis on the possibility of observing such phenomena at Fermilab experiment T-864 (MiniMax), or at a Full Acceptance Detector (FAD) at the SSC.

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