A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron

MiniMax Collaboration; Brooks, T. C.; Convery, M. E.; Davis, W. L.; Del Signore, K. W.; Jenkins, T. L.; Kangas, E.; Knepley, M. G.; Kowalski, K. L.; Taylor, C. C.; Oh, S. H.; Walker, W. D.; Colestock, P. L.; Hanna, B.; Martens, M.; Streets, J.; Ball, R. C.; Gustafson, H. R.; Jones, L. W.; Longo, M. J.; Bjorken, J. D.; Abashian, A.; Morgan, N.; Pruneau, C. A.

A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron

Authors

MiniMax Collaboration

Description

We present results from MiniMax (Fermilab T-864), a small test/experiment at the Tevatron designed to search for the production of disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) in $p - \bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV in the forward direction, $\sim 3.4 < η< \sim 4.2$. Data, consisting of $1.3 \times 10^6$ events, are analyzed using the robust observables developed in an earlier paper. The results are consistent with generic, binomial-distribution partition of pions into charged and neutral species. Limits on DCC production in various models are presented.
24 pages, 9 figures. Minor clarifications have been added