Dilepton from Disoriented Chiral Condensates

Abstract

Disoriented chiral condensates are manifested as long wavelength pionic oscillations and their interaction with the thermal environment can be a significant source of dileptons. We calculate the yield of such dilepton production within the linear sigma model and illustrate the basic features of the dilepton spectrum in a schematic model. We find that the dilepton yield with invariant mass near and below $2m_π$ due to the soft pion modes can be up to two orders of magnitude larger than the corresponding equilibrium yield. We conclude with a discussion on how this enhancement can be detected by present dilepton experiments.

15 pages, 9 figs, uses epsf and sprocl style files Contribution to Proceedings, International Workshop on Astro Hadron Physics `Hadrons in Dense Matter', APCTP, Seoul, Korea, October 1997