Preliminary Results from a Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates at MiniMax
Abstract
We report on the progress of a search for disoriented chiral condensates (DCCs) in the far forward region at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV. MiniMax is a small collider experiment situated at the C0 interaction region of the Tevatron and has been designed to measure the ratio of charged to neutral pions produced at eta near 4.1. The distribution of this ratio is expected to be very different for the generic binomial and DCC particle production models. We present a method used for the search using the factorial moments of particle generating functions, which can be extracted directly from the data. A preliminary comparison of robust ratios of measured values and those expected from the different models is also presented.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9608012,
title = {Preliminary Results from a Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates at MiniMax},
author = {T. C. Brooks and M. E. Convery and W. L. Davis and K. W. Delsignore 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. 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/9608012},
year = {2007}
}
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Latex, 2 figures, 3 pages, To appear in the proceedings of DPF 96.