Kaon and Pion Fluctuations from Small Disoriented Chiral Condensates

Abstract

Enhancement of omega and antiomega baryon production in Pb+Pb collisions at a c.m. energy of 17 A 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 pion and kaon measurements at RHIC and LHC.

6 pages, revtex, 1 eps figure

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• Is Anomalous Production of Omega and anti-Omega Evidence for Disoriented Chiral Condensates?

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