Observing Disoriented Chiral Condensates
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-25 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9309235,
title = {Observing Disoriented Chiral Condensates},
author = {J. D. Bjorken and K. L. Kowalski and C. C. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9309235},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, LaTex, figures available on request. hep-ph/yymmnnn