Disoriented chiral condensate: Theory and experiment

Physics Reports

Volumn 414, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 263-358

  Mohanty, B ^a   Serreau, Julien ^b,c  

^a VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTRE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Disoriented chiral condensates; Heavy ion collisions; Particle production; Quantum chromodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 20944434596     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2005.04.004     Document Type: Review

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