Soliton solutions of the sigma-model and disoriented chiral condensates

We derive traveling soliton solutions of the sigma model, relevant for the description of dynamics of pions, in the high-energy, heavy-ion collisions. These extended objects are analogs of Neel and Bloch-type defects in ferro magnetic systems and could possibly describe the disoriented chiral condens ates. It is shown that these solutions are metastable and can naturally pro duce an asymmetry between pi(0) and pi(+), pi(-) mesons in the soft-pion em issions from heavy-ion collisons.