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Pion production by the parametric resonance mechanism with quantum back reactions

Abstract:

We investigate the problem of quantum back reactions due to particle production by the parametric resonance mechanism in an environment of nonequilibrium chiral phase transition. We work with the linear sigma model and employ Boyanovsky et al.’s formalism [D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, and R. Holman, Phys. Rev. D 51, 734 (1995)] to take account of back reactions under the Hartree-Fock approximation. We calculate the single-pion momentum distributions and two-pion correlations under the initial condition of thermal equilibrium and small amplitude sigma oscillations around a potential minimum. We observe that the resonance peak survives under the back reaction, which is remarkable considering the strong coupling of the sigma model. © 2001 The American Physical Society.