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We compute numerically the topological charge distribution in the initial stage of a high energy heavy ion collision. This charge distribution is generated by Chern-Simons number fluctuations associated with the dynamics of strong classical…

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To obtain further insight on possible power law generalizations of Boltzmann equilibrium concepts, a stochastic collision model is investigated. We consider the dynamics of a tracer particle of mass $M$, undergoing elastic collisions with…

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The dynamics of electrons in the presence of a positive ion is considered for conditions of weak electron-electron couping but strong electron-ion coupling. The equilibrium electron density and electric field time correlation functions are…

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Multiplicity distributions of intermediate mass fragments (IMF) seen in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions have been of great interest in the last ten years. The distributions of single intermediate sized element are close to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Shi , S. Das Gupta

The transverse mass spectra of light mesons produced in Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon are analyzed in Tsallis statistics. In high energy collisions, it has been found that the spectra follow a generalized scaling law. We applied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-25 Bao-Chun Li , Ya-Zhou Wang , Fu-Hu Liu

We introduce a non-growth model that generates the power-law distribution with the Zipf exponent. There are N elements, each of which is characterized by a quantity, and at each time step these quantities are redistributed through binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-27 Suhan Ree

The scaling of charged hadron fragmentation functions to the Tsallis distribution for $0.01 \lessapprox x \lessapprox 0.2$ is presented for various $e^+e^-$ collision energies. A possible microcanonical generalisation of the Tsallis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 K. Urmossy , G. G. Barnafoldi , T. S. Biro

In classical diffusion, particle step-sizes have a Gaussian distribution. However, in superdiffusion, they have power-law tails, with transport dominated by rare, long L\'evy flights. Similarly, if the time interval between scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Naixin Liang , Siang Peng Oh

Scattering phenomena between charged particles and highly excited Rydberg atoms are of critical importance in many processes in plasma physics and astrophysics. While a Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) energy distribution for the charged particles is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Daniel Vrinceanu , Roberto Onofrio , Hossein R. Sadeghpour

Statistical properties of coupled dynamic-stochastic systems are studied within a combination of the maximum information principle and the superstatistical approach. The conditions at which the Shannon entropy functional leads to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. V. Vakarin , J. P. Badiali

The Tsallis distribution has been used widely in high energy physics to describe the transverse momnetum distributions of particles. In this note we show that the use of a thermodynamically consistent form of this distribution leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-30 J. Cleymans

Electric field dynamics at a positive ion imbedded in an electron gas is considered using a semiclassical description. The dependence of the field autocorrelation function on charge number is studied for strong ion-electron coupling via MD…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Dufty , Ilya Pogorelov , Bernard Talin , Annette Calisti

The relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for the system of $N$ events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered without the simplifying approximation $m^2\cong M^2$, where $M$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

Distributions exhibiting fat tails occur frequently in many different areas of science. A dynamical reason for fat tails can be a so-called superstatistics, where one has a superposition of local Gaussians whose variance fluctuates on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christian Beck

Photoionization produces supra-thermal electrons, electrons with much more energy than is found in a thermalized gas at electron temperatures characteristic of nebulae. The presence of these high energy electrons may solve the long-standing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-13 G. J. Ferland , W. J. Henney , C. R. ODell , M. Peimbert

We revisit effective scenarios for the origin of heavy tails in stationary velocity distributions. A first analysis combines localization with diffusive acceleration. That gets realized in space plasmas to find the so-called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Thibaut Demaerel , Wojciech De Roeck , Christian Maes

Power law-like size distributions are ubiquitous in astrophysical instabilities. There are at least four natural effects that cause deviations from ideal power law size distributions, which we model here in a generalized way: (1) a physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-25 Markus J. Aschwanden

Hadron yields in high energy heavy ion collisions have been fitted and reproduced by thermal models using standard statistical distributions. These models give insight into the freeze-out conditions at varying beam energies. In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 J. Cleymans , G. Hamar , P. Levai , S. Wheaton

The nonextensive statistical ensembles are revisited for the complex systems with long-range interactions and long-range correlations. An approximation, the value of nonextensive parameter (1-q) is assumed to be very tiny, is adopted for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yahui Zheng , Jiulin Du , Linxia Liu , Huijun Kong

The experimental data from the RHIC and LHC experiments of invariant pT spectra in A+A and p + p collisions are analysed with Tsallis distributions in different approaches. The information about the freeze-out surface in terms of freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Dhananjaya Thakur , Sushanta Tripathy , Prakhar Garg , Raghunath Sahoo , Jean Cleymans