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C. C. Taylor

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arXiv1999

A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron

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.

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arXiv1999

Light Meson Mass Spectrum from Gauge Fields on Supergravity Backgrounds

We propose that the spectrum of light mesons (the $π$ and $ρ$, together with their radial excitations) can be calculated in the limit of vanishing light quark masses by studying gauge theory (open string theory) on suitable higher dimensional background geometries. Using the metric proposed by Witten for glueball calculations as a paradigmatic example, we find a spectrum which is in startlingly good agreement with the masses tabulated by the Particle Data Group. These calculations have only one free parameter, corresponding to the overall mass scale. We make predictions for the next several particles in the spectrum.

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arXiv1996

Preliminary Results from a Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates at MiniMax

We report on the progress of a search for disoriented chiral condensates (DCCs) in the far forward region at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV. MiniMax is a small collider experiment situated at the C0 interaction region of the Tevatron and has been designed to measure the ratio of charged to neutral pions produced at eta near 4.1. The distribution of this ratio is expected to be very different for the generic binomial and DCC particle production models. We present a method used for the search using the factorial moments of particle generating functions, which can be extracted directly from the data. A preliminary comparison of robust ratios of measured values and those expected from the different models is also presented.

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arXiv1993

Observing Disoriented Chiral Condensates

We speculate that, in very high energy hadronic collisions, large fireballs may be produced with interiors which have anomalous chiral order parameters. Such a process would result in radiation of pions with distinctive momentum and isospin distributions, and may provide an explanation of Centauro and related phenomena in cosmic-ray events. The phenomenology of such events is reviewed, with emphasis on the possibility of observing such phenomena at Fermilab experiment T-864 (MiniMax), or at a Full Acceptance Detector (FAD) at the SSC.

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