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A look at multiparticle production via modified combinants

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-24 v3

Abstract

As shown recently, one can obtain additional information from the measured charged particle multiplicity distributions, P(N)P(N), by investigating the so-called modified combinants, CjC_j, extracted from them. This information is encoded in the observed specific oscillatory behaviour of CjC_j, which phenomenologically can be described only by some combinations of compound distributions based on the Binomial Distribution. So far this idea has been checked in pppp and e+ee^+e^- processes (where observed oscillations are spectacularly strong). In this paper, we continue observation of multiparticle production from the modified combinants perspective by investigating dependencies of the observed oscillatory patterns on type of colliding particles, their energies and the phase space where they are observed. We also offer some tentative explanations based on different types of compound distributions and stochastic branching processes.

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@article{arxiv.1908.11062,
  title  = {A look at multiparticle production via modified combinants},
  author = {H. W. Ang and A. H. Chan and M. Ghaffar and M. Rybczyński and G. Wilk and Z. Włodarczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11062},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 figures and 1 table. This reworked version has been accepted for publication by EPJA

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