Forming Disoriented Chiral Condensates through Fluctuations

Details Forming Disoriented Chiral Condensates through Fluctuations Forming Disoriented Chiral Condensates through Fluctuations

1998-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9806045v1

Phys.Rev.C58:2331-2357,1998

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

34 pages, 11 figures, ReVTeX, eps-, aps-, psfig-style files required

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.58.2331

Using the influence functional formalism, classical equations of motion for the O(N) model are derived in the presence of a heat bath, in both the symmetric phase as well as the phase of spontaneously broken symmetry. The heat bath leads to dissipation and fluctuation terms in the classical equations of motion, which are explicitly computed to lowest order in perturbation theory. In the broken phase these terms are found to be large for the sigma field, even at zero temperature, due to the decay process sigma -> pi pi, while they are small for the pi fields at temperatures below T_c = 160 MeV. It is shown that in large volumes the presence of dissipation and fluctuations suppresses the formation of disoriented chiral condensates (DCC's). In small volumes, however, fluctuations become sufficiently large to induce the formation of DCC's even if chiral symmetry has not been restored in the initial stage of the system's evolution.

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