Non-linear Sigma Model Solutions for the Disoriented Chiral Condensate at O(p^4)

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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14 pages, 6 postscript figures, RevTex

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10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00175-5

Boost-invariant (1+1) dimensional solutions for the Disoriented Chiral Condensate (DCC) are obtained numerically, in the context of the $SU(2)_L \otimes SU(2)_R$ non-linear sigma model at O(p^4) in the momentum expansion. We ignore the mass terms in the Lagrangian, as we are mainly interested in the behavior of the solutions for small values of proper time $\tau$. The solutions obtained at O(p^4) are matched to those of O(p^2) at a late proper time $\tau \gg 1/m_\pi$, where $m_\pi = 140$ MeV is the mass of the pion. We find that at O(p^4) the solutions for the DCC do not have singular behavior at early proper times $\tau \ll 1/m_\pi$. The solutions indicate that for $\tau \lsim (0.5-0.8)$ fm the O(p^4) corrections become important. We take the sizes of the field derivatives to be indicators of the validity of the momentum expansion. Thus, we deduce that the O(p^4) solutions can be used to represent the qualitative behavior of the DCC down to proper times of about 0.2 fm. Since below $\sim 0.2$ fm the formalism is not reliable, we conclude that the inclusion of higher order terms beyond O(p^4) is not needed to extend the validity of the solutions to earlier proper times.

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