Kaon and pion fluctuations from small disoriented chiral condensates

Sean Gavin, Joseph I. Kapusta

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Abstract

Enhancement of Ω and Ω̄ baryon production in Pb+Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 17A GeV can be explained by the formation of many small disoriented chiral condensate regions. This explanation implies that neutral and charged kaons as well as pions must exhibit novel isospin fluctuations. We compute the distribution of the fraction of neutral pions and kaons from such regions. We then propose robust statistical observables that can be used to extract the novel fluctuations from background contributions in π0π± and KS0K± measurements at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number054910
Pages (from-to)549101-549106
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume65
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2002

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