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- Title
Some intriguing aspects of multiparticle production processes.
- Authors
Wilk, Grzegorz; Włodarczyk, Zbigniew
- Abstract
Multiparticle production processes provide valuable information about the mechanism of the conversion of the initial energy of projectiles into a number of secondaries by measuring their multiplicity distributions and their distributions in phase space. They therefore serve as a reference point for more involved measurements. Distributions in phase space are usually investigated using the statistical approach, very successful in general but failing in cases of small colliding systems, small multiplicities, and at the edges of the allowed phase space, in which cases the underlying dynamical effects competing with the statistical distributions take over. We discuss an alternative approach, which applies to the whole phase space without detailed knowledge of dynamics. It is based on a modification of the usual statistics by generalizing it to a superstatistical form. We stress particularly the scaling and self-similar properties of such an approach manifesting themselves as the phenomena of the log-periodic oscillations and oscillations of temperature caused by sound waves in hadronic matter. Concerning the multiplicity distributions we discuss in detail the phenomenon of the oscillatory behavior of the modified combinants apparently observed in experimental data.
- Subjects
MULTIPLICITY of hadrons; COLLISIONS (Nuclear physics); NUMBER theory; OSCILLATIONS; MULTIPLICITY of nuclear particles; SCALING laws (Nuclear physics)
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics A: Particles & Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 10, p-1
- ISSN
0217-751X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217751X18300089