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A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-02-18 v2

Abstract

We present results from MiniMax (Fermilab T-864), a small test/experiment at the Tevatron designed to search for the production of disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) in ppˉp - \bar p collisions at s=1.8\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV in the forward direction, 3.4<η<4.2\sim 3.4 < \eta < \sim 4.2. Data, consisting of 1.3×1061.3 \times 10^6 events, are analyzed using the robust observables developed in an earlier paper. The results are consistent with generic, binomial-distribution partition of pions into charged and neutral species. Limits on DCC production in various models are presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9906026,
  title  = {A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron},
  author = {MiniMax Collaboration and T. C. Brooks and M. E. Convery and W. L. Davis and K. W. Del Signore and T. L. Jenkins and E. Kangas and M. G. Knepley and K. L. Kowalski and C. C. Taylor and S. H. Oh and W. D. Walker and P. L. Colestock and B. Hanna and M. Martens and J. Streets and R. C. Ball and H. R. Gustafson and L. W. Jones and M. J. Longo and J. D. Bjorken and A. Abashian and N. Morgan and C. A. Pruneau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9906026},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages, 9 figures. Minor clarifications have been added