Anomalous Transverse Distribution of Pions as a signal for the production of DCC's

Cooper, F.; Kluger, Y.; Mottola, E.

Anomalous Transverse Distribution of Pions as a signal for the production of DCC's

Authors

Cooper, F.

Kluger, Y.

Mottola, E.

Description

We give evidence that the production of DCC's during a non-equilibrium phase transition can lead to an anomalous transverse distribution of secondary pions when compared to a more conventional boost invariant hydrodynamic flow in local thermal equilibrium. Our results pertain to the linear $σ$ model,treated in leading order in large-$N$, in a boost invariant approximation. We also show that the interpolating number density of the field theory calculation plays the role of a classical relativistic phase space number distribution in determining the momentum distribution of pions in the center of mass frame.
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