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In this paper un-binned statistical tools for analyzing the cosmic ray energy spectrum are developed and illustrated with a simulated data set. The methods are designed to extract accurate and precise model parameter estimators in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-21 J. D. Hague , B. R. Becker , M. S. Gold , J. A. J. Matthews

Typical Tsallis' statistical mechanics' quantifiers like the partition function and the mean energy exhibit poles. We are speaking of the partition function ${\cal Z}$ and the mean energy $<{\cal U}>$. The poles appear for distinctive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-28 J. D. Zamora , M. C. Rocca , A. Plastino , G. L. Ferri

We investigate the 1D plane-parallel front connecting the warm ($10^4$ K) and hot ($10^6$ K) phases of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), focusing on the influence of cosmic rays (CRs) in shaping these transition layers. We find that cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Hanjue Zhu , Ellen G. Zweibel , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The application of holographic principle in very early time is studied. The consideration of the principle in the late-time evolution will be a good motivation to study its role at the time of inflation. Since the length scale is expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Tayeb Golanbari , Kazuharu Bamba , Iarley P. Lobo

Cosmic rays represent one of the most important energy transformation processes of the universe. They bring information about the surrounding universe, our galaxy, and very probably also the extragalactic space, at least at the highest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 G. Di Sciascio , INFN - Roma Tor Vergata

An ion in a radiofrequency ion trap interacting with a buffer gas of ultracold neutral atoms is a driven dynamical system which has been found to develop a non-thermal energy distribution with a power law tail. The exact analytical form of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 I. Rouse , S. Willitsch

A study of the effects of non-extensivity on the modelling of atomic physics in hot dense plasmas is proposed within Tsallis' statistics. The electronic structure of the plasma is calculated through an average-atom model based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jean-Christophe Pain , Denis Teychenné , Franck Gilleron

An analysis of the thermodynamic behavior of quantum systems can be performed from a geometrical perspective investigating the structure of the state space. We have developed such an analysis for nonextensive thermostatistical frameworks,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Portesi , A. Plastino , F. Pennini

We calculate the energy spectra and mass composition of cosmic rays in energy region 1 - 10^8 GeV/particle under the assumption that cosmic rays propagation in the Galaxy is described by anomalous diffusion equation. Our results and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Lagutin , D. V. Strelnikov , A. G. Tyumentsev

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

Estimating the temperature and metal abundance of the intracluster and the intragroup media is crucial to determine their global metal content and to determine fundamental cosmological parameters. When a spatially resolved temperature or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of the apparent horizon in a fractal universe. We find that one can always rewrite the Friedmann equation of the fractal universe in the form of the entropy balance relation $ \delta Q=T_h…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ahmad Sheykhi , Zeinab Teimoori , Bin Wang

We study the thermodynamical properties of the quantum kicked rotator, coarsened by an external fluctuation with a weak intensity D, by means of the Tsallis entropy with a changing entropic index q. The genuine entropic index, corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luigi Palatella , Paolo Grigolini

The parametric resonance was studied in chiral phase transitions when the momentum distribution is described by a Tsallis distribution. A Tsallis distribution has two parameters, the temperature $T$ and the entropic index $q$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-23 Masamichi Ishihara

Certain fluctuations in particle number at fixed total energy lead exactly to a cut-power law distribution in the one-particle energy, via the induced fluctuations in the phase-space volume ratio. The temperature parameter is expressed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-10 Tamas Sandor Biro , Peter Van , Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi , Karoly Urmossy

The general formalisms of the $q$-dual statistics, the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics, and three versions of the Tsallis statistics known as Tsallis-1, Tsallis-2, and Tsallis-3 statistics have been considered in the canonical ensemble. We have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-08 A. S. Parvan

Nowadays, the calculation of the Galactic Cosmic Rays diffusion coefficient with direct microscopic numerical simulations is a widespread approach. In this work, we investigated the numerical limits for such calculations and demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Vladimir Yurovsky , Ilya Kudryashov

The classical limit for generalized partition functions is obtained using coherent states. In this framework it is presented a general procedure to obtain all the corrections to the classical limit. In particular, the first and second order…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 L. R. Evangelista , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes

In this paper, we present some geometric properties of the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) Tsallis- distributions under energy constraint. In the case q > 1, these distributions are proved to be marginals of uniform distributions on the sphere; in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Vignat , A. Plastino

In the present work, we have found that the phenomenological Tsallis distribution (which nowadays is largely used to describe the transverse momentum distributions of hadrons measured in $pp$ collisions at high energies) is consistent with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-09 A. S. Parvan