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The charged-particle multiplicity distribution and its moments have been measured, for all hadronic as well as for light-quark and b-quark events in e+e- collisions at the Z mass. The Hq moments derived from the charged-particle…
Event-by-event fluctuations of conserved charges - such as electric charge, strangeness, and baryon number - in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide insight into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the QCD phase diagram.…
It is suggested that the study of multiplicity difference correlators between two well-separated bins in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can be used as a means to detect evidence of a quark-hadron phase transition. Analytical expressions…
Signals of QCD instanton induced processes are searched for in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA in a kinematic region defined by the Bjorken scaling variables x>0.001, 0.1<y<0.6 and polar angle of the scattered positron >156 degrees.…
Charged particle multiplicities in proton-proton collisions measured in the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s$=7 TeV in different windows of pseudorapidity $\eta$, in the forward region of the vertex detector are studied…
Double tag events in two photon collisions are studied using the L3 detector at the LEP center of mass energies $\sqrt{s} \simeq 189-202$ GeV. The cross-section of $\gamma ^* \gamma ^*$ collisions is measured at an average photon virtuality…
We review recent theoretical developments in understanding the intermittency phenomenon observed in high-energy leptonic, hadronic and nuclear collisions. In particular, we discuss self-similar cascading and QCD parton showers, models with…
This paper investigates the configurational entropic content of hadron-nucleus collisions. Hadron multiplicities and Au nuclei are employed to compute the critical points of the configurational entropy as a function of the saturation scale…
An analysis of the angular distribution of the decay $\Lambda_b^0 \rightarrow \Lambda \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ is presented, using data collected with the LHCb detector between 2011 and 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…
The critical endpoint (CEP) is a fundamental feature of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram, marking the boundary between quark-gluon plasma and hadronic matter. Heavy-ion collision experiments, such as the RHIC Beam Energy Scan,…
Recent results on jet physics and tests of QCD from hadronic final states in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at PETRA and at LEP are reviewed, with special emphasis on hadronic event shapes, charged particle production rates, properties of quark and…
The unitarity of the $S$-matrix requires that the absorptive part of the elastic scattering amplitude receives contributions from both the inelastic and the elastic channels. We explore this unitarity condition in order to describe, in a…
Net-baryon number, net-charge and net-strangeness fluctuations measured in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions may reveal details and insights into the quark-hadron transition, hadrochemical freeze-out and possibly aid in the search of…
Studies in the forward region of charged particle multiplicity and density, as well as energy flow, are presented. These measurements are performed using data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected with…
Measurements of hadronic final state interactions in W-pair events at LEP are presented. In particular, different scenarios of colour reconnection are studied. The data agree with moderate colour reconnection effects. Extreme scenarios are…
A preliminary study of double tag events using the L3 detector at center of mass energy sqrt{s}=189 GeV has been performed. The cross-section of gamma* gamma* collisions is measured at average <Q2>=14.5 GeV2. The results are in agreement…
Bidding farewell to the LEP accelerator, we acknowledge that an essential part of its legacy is the immense amount of data collected during 5 years of the LEP1 stage, at the Z peak. This set of data allows for detailed studies of many…
The study of the inelastic scattering of hadrons has progressed in the last decade. With the availability of high-statistics data sets from HERA and the Tevatron, our understanding of high energy and high jet multiplicity events has become…
The charged particle multiplicity in hadronic three-jet events from Z decays is investigated. The topology dependence of the event multiplicity is found to be well described by a modified leading logarithmic prediction. A parameter fit of…
We propose and experimentally demonstrate parallel LiDAR using random intensity fluctuations from a highly multimode laser. We optimize a degenerate cavity to have many spatial modes lasing simultaneously with different frequencies. Their…