On the Distribution of Neutral and Charged Pions through the Production of a Classical Pion Field

TL;DR

This paper explores how classical pion fields formed during high-energy reactions influence the distribution of neutral and charged pions, highlighting the role of isospin violation in enhancing neutral particle production.

Contribution

It introduces a model where classical pion fields from quark interactions lead to unique charge distributions, differing from traditional statistical models.

Findings

Classical pion fields can produce events with predominantly charged or neutral particles.

Isospin violation due to quark mass differences significantly increases neutral particle events.

The model predicts a higher probability of neutral-dominant events than statistical models.

Abstract

High energy reactions may produce a state around the collision point that is best described by a classical pion field. Such a field might be an isospin rotated vacuum of the chiral $\sigma$-model or, as discussed in this work, a solution of the equations of motion resultinng from the coupling of fields of this model to quarks produced in the collision. In such configurations all directions in isospin space are allowed leading to a sizable probability of events with, essentially, only charged particles (Centauros) or all neutral particles (anti-Centauros). (In more common statistical models of multiparticle production, the probability of such events is suppressed exponentially by the total multiplicity.) We find that the isospin violation due to the mass difference of the up and down quarks has a significant effect on these distributions and enhances the production of events consisting predominantly of neutral particles.