Larger domains of disoriented chiral condensate through annealing

1993/12/28 by Sean Gavin, Berndt Müller, Berndt Mueller · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)91094-4

published as Phys.Lett. B329 (1994) 486-492 · 7 pages and 3 postscript figures, BNL-GM-1

arxiv created 1993/12/28 · openalex publication_date 1994/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Relativistic heavy ion collisions can generate metastable domains in which the chiral condensate is disoriented. Nucleus-sized domains can yield measurable fluctuations in the number of neutral and charged pions. We propose a scenario in which domains are `annealed' by a dynamically evolving effective potential in the heavy ion system. Domains of sizes exceeding 3~fm are possible in this scenario.

Citations

• Pion condensation in relativistic heavy ion collisions

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