1998/05/19 by James N. Hormuzdiar, James Hormuzdiar, Stephen D. H. Hsu
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.59.889
published as Phys.Rev. C59 (1999) 889-893 · 9 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 1998/05/19 · openalex publication_date 1999/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We describe a class of pionic breather solutions (PBS) which appear in the chiral Lagrangian description of low-energy QCD. These configurations are long lived, with lifetimes greater than 103 fm/c, and could arise as remnants of disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) formation at RHIC. We show that the chiral Lagrangian equations of motion for a uniformly isospin-polarized domain reduce to those of the sine-Gordon model. Consequently, our solutions are directly related to the breather solutions of sine-Gordon theory in 3+1 dimensions. We investigate the possibility of PBS formation from multiple domains of DCC, and show that the probability of formation is non-negligible.