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Strange Disoriented Chiral Condensate
Sean Gavin
Disoriented chiral condensate can produce novel fluctuations of kaons as well as pions. Robust statistical observables can be used to extract the novel fluctuations from background…
Extraordinary Baryon Fluctuations and the QCD Tricritical Point
Sean Gavin
The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expecta…
Baryon Fluctuations in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Sean Gavin, Claude Pruneau
We propose that dramatic changes in the variances and covariance of protons and antiprotons can result if baryons approach chemical equilibrium in nuclear collisions at RHIC. To ex…
Survival Probabilities of Disoriented Chiral Domains in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
R. Bellwied, S. Gavin, T. Humanic
By using a dynamical transport code we show that chirally disoriented domains might survive the hadronization phase in a central relativistic heavy ion collision. A successful meas…