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Medium dependence of multiplicity distributions in MLLA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-22 v1

Abstract

We study the modification of the multiplicity distributions in MLLA due to the presence of a QCD medium. The medium is introduced though a multiplicative constant (fmedf_{med}) in the soft infrared parts of the kernels of QCD evolution equations. Using the asymptotic ansatz for quark and gluons mean multiplicities <nG>=eγy<n_G>=e^{\gamma y} and <nQ>=r1eγy<n_Q>=r^{-1}e^{\gamma y} respectively, we study two cases: fixed γ\gamma as previously considered in the literature, and fixed αs\alpha_s. We find opposite behaviors of the dispersion of the multiplicity distributions with increasing fmedf_{med} in both cases. For fixed γ\gamma the dispersion decreases, while for fixed αs\alpha_s it increases.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4428,
  title  = {Medium dependence of multiplicity distributions in MLLA},
  author = {N. Armesto and C. Pajares and P. Quiroga-Arias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4428},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 9 pages, 4 eps figures; proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions - Hard Probes 2008 (Illa de A Toxa, Spain, June 8th-14th 2008)

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