Density saturation and the decrease of the normalised width of the multiplicity distribution in high energy pp collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
It is experimentally observed that the width of the KNO multiplicity distribution --or the negative binomial parameter 1/k-- for pp collisions, in the energy region 10 to 1800 GeV, is an increasing function of the energy. We argue that in models with parton or string saturation such trend will necessary change: at some energy the distribution will start to become narrower. In the framework of percolating strings, we have estimated the change to occur at an energy of the order of 5--10 TeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405116,
title = {Density saturation and the decrease of the normalised width of the multiplicity distribution in high energy pp collisions},
author = {J. Dias de Deus and E. G. Ferreiro and C. Pajares and R. Ugoccioni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405116},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, uses elsart and amsmath; comparison with some other models was added; version accepted by PLB