Wavelet Perspective of a Disoriented Chiral Condensate

Abstract

The possible chiral phase transition in high energy heavy-ion collisions may lead to the formation of a disoriented chiral condensate (DCC). However, the existence of many uncorrelated small domains in the rather large interaction volume and the huge combinatorial background make the experimental search for the DCC signal a rather difficult task. We present a novel method for studying the formation of a DCC in high energy heavy-ion collisions utilizing a discrete wavelet transformation. We find the wavelet power spectrum for a DCC to exhibit a strong dependence on the scale while an equilibrium system and the standard dynamical models such as HIJING have a flat spectrum.