Dynamics of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

Measurements of disoriented chiral condensates in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC can yield fundamental information on the nature of the QCD phase transition. I review theoretical efforts to understand the evolution of the condensate and present new results on experimental signals in the single pion spectrum and in pion interferometry. (Invited talk at the Third International Workshop on Relativistic Aspects of Nuclear Physics, Rio de Janeiro.)

9 pages including 3 postscript figures, BNL-60637