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- Title
On the Partition Temperature of Massless Particles in High-Energy Collisions.
- Authors
Qian, Wei-Liang; Lin, Kai; Yue, Rui-Hong; Hama, Yogiro; Kodama, Takeshi
- Abstract
Although partition temperature derived using the Darwin–Fowler method is exact for simple scenarios, the derivation for complex systems might reside in specific approximations whose viability is not ensured if the thermodynamic limit is not attained. This work elaborates on a related problem relevant to relativistic high-energy collisions. On the one hand, it is simple enough that closed-form expressions can be obtained precisely for the one-particle distribution function. On the other hand, the resulting expression is not an exponential form, and therefore, it is not straightforward that the notion of partition function could be implied. Specifically, we derive the one-particle distribution function for massless particles where the phase-space integration is performed exactly for the underlying canonical ensemble consisting of a given number of particles. We discuss the viability of the partition temperature in this case. Possible implications of the obtained results regarding the observed Tsallis distribution in transverse momentum spectra in high-energy collisions are also addressed.
- Subjects
DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; COLLISIONS (Nuclear physics); DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); PARTITION functions; CANONICAL ensemble; TEMPERATURE; MOMENTUM distributions
- Publication
Symmetry (20738994), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 11, p2035
- ISSN
2073-8994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/sym15112035