Effects of the Detection Efficiency on Multiplicity Distributions
Nuclear Experiment
2013-08-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this paper we investigate how a finite detection efficiency affects three popular multiplicity distributions, namely the Poisson, the Binomial and the Negative Binomial distributions. We found that a multiplicity-independent detection efficiency does not change the characteristic of a distribution, while a multiplicity-dependent detection efficiency does. We layout a procedure to study the deviation of moments and their derivative quantities from the baseline distribution due to a multiplicity-dependent detection efficiency.
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@article{arxiv.1305.1392,
title = {Effects of the Detection Efficiency on Multiplicity Distributions},
author = {A. Tang and G. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1392},
year = {2013}
}
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4 pages