Larger Domains of Disoriented Chiral Condensate Through Annealing
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v1 Nuclear Theory
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9312349,
title = {Larger Domains of Disoriented Chiral Condensate Through Annealing},
author = {Sean Gavin and Berndt Mueller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9312349},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages and 3 postscript figures, BNL-GM-1