OVERVIEW OF EVENT-BY-EVENT ANALYSIS OF HIGH ENERGY NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

The event-by-event analysis of high energy nuclear collisions aims at revealing the richness of the underlying event structures and provide unique measures of dynamical fluctuations associated with QGP phase transition. The major challenge in these studies is to separate the dynamical fluctuations from the many other sources which contribute to the measured values. We present the fluctuations in terms of event multiplicity, mean transverse momentum, elliptic flow, source sizes, particle ratios and net charge distributions. In addition, we discuss the effect of long range correlations, disoriented chiral condensates and presence of jets. A brief review of various probes used for fluctuation studies and available experimental results are presented.

SIMULATING DCC SIGNALS IN COSMIC RAYS

We investigate the production of disoriented chiral condensates in ultra high energy collisions and look for an intrinsic signature they could produce in ongoing and future cosmic ray experiments. This is implemented by studying the atmospheric showers generated after the chiral symmetry breakdown. We also speculate on the nature of the events and its connection with Centauro and anti-Centauro observations. Some preliminary results are presented.

Φ-MEASURE AND DISORIENTED CHIRAL CONDENSATES

Fluctuations in the ratio of neutral to charged pions arising due to formation of disoriented chiral condensates (DCC) are discussed using the Φ-measure. The properties of the measure for various cases of DCC and non-DCC are discussed. The effect of detector efficiencies and other experimental factors are presented. Application of the Φ-measure to simulated data, within the context of a simple DCC model and to experimental data are also discussed.