Inclusive Spectra and Quantum Stochastic Processes
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-05-15 v3
Abstract
We try to explain the apparently "thermal" shape of the inclusive transverse momentum spectrum. We conjecture that prior to the collision, parton-parton interactions generate a kind of a stochastic process driving the one-particle spectrum within a hadron towards the thermal shape it would have in a classical gas. We illustrate this idea, which might have a more general relevance, with a simple, exactly solvable model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204116,
title = {Inclusive Spectra and Quantum Stochastic Processes},
author = {A. Krzywicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204116},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2-column revtex format, format changed and references added