Search for disoriented chiral condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron

Abstract
We present results from MiniMax (Fermilab T-864), a small test/experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron designed to search for the production of a disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) in p-p¯ collisions at s=1.8 TeV in the forward direction, 3.4<η<4.2. Data, consisting of 1.3×106 events, are analyzed using the robust observables developed in an earlier paper. The results are consistent with generic, binomial-distribution partition of pions into charged and neutral species. Limits on DCC production in various models are presented.