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View SchemaSignatures of Disoriented Chiral Condensates from Charged Pions
| Authors | Thomas D. Cohen, Chi-Keung Chow |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9903029 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9903029 |
Abstract
We show that the variance in the number of charged pions (in a suitable range of momentum space) provides a signature for the observation of a disoriented chiral condensate (D$\chi$C). The signal should be observable even if multiple domains of D$\chi$C form provided the average number of pions per domain is significantly large than unity. The variance of the number charged pions alone provides a signal which can be used even if the number of neutral pions cannot be measured in a given detector. If the neutrals can be measured, however, the fluctuations in the total number of pions provides a signature which distinguishes disoriented chiral condensates from other hypothetical sources of coherent states of pions.
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