Classical pion fields in the presence of a source

A classical pion field that is similar to a disoriented chiral condensate is considered in the presence of an external source. The field is similar to the condensate in that the isotopic orientation of the field in the whole space is determined by a single vector. Within the nonlinear sigma model, classical solutions are considered both in the chiral limit, where the pions are massless, and in the case of a finite pion mass. In either case, the classical filed is similar to the Coulomb field of a charged particle; however, the nonlinear pion interaction results in the existence of several solutions. In the massless case and in the case where the source is sufficiently small, there are a great number of classical solutions characterized by finite discrete energies. In the more realistic case of heavy ions, there are no stable solutions of this type; however, long-lived quasistationary states, which slowly decay, emitting very soft pions, can be formed. The structure and the energies of these solutions are studied numerically