Isospin Violation and Possible Signatures of Disoriented Chiral Condensates in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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13 pages, revtex, 3 figures. Replaced version is shorter and easier to read than original. It corresponds to the version submi

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10.1016/0370-2693(96)00051-2

It is possible that isospin violating dynamical effects are amplified due to coherence if a disoriented chiral condensate (or other source of a coherent pion state) is formed in a heavy ion collison. It is shown explicitly that altering the isospin of the coherent state by order of one unit can change the number of $\pi^0$'s in the condensate by some finite fraction of the total number. A possible signature of such amplified isospin violating effects is that the ratio of neutral to total low $p_T$ pions averaged over many events may differ markedly from 1/3. Such a signal would not be washed out if multiple domains of coherent pions form.

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