Larger Domains of Disoriented Chiral Condensate Through Annealing

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Relativistic heavy ion collisions can generate metastable domains in which the chiral condensate is disoriented. Nucleus-sized domains can yield measurable fluctuations in the number of neutral and charged pions. We propose a scenario in which domains are `annealed' by a dynamically evolving effective potential in the heavy ion system. Domains of sizes exceeding 3~fm are possible in this scenario.

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