Identity Method for Particle Number Fluctuations and Correlations
Abstract
An incomplete particle identification distorts the observed event-by-event fluctuations of the hadron chemical composition in nucleus-nucleus collisions. A new experimental technique called the {\em identity method} was recently proposed. It eliminated the misidentification problem for one specific combination of the second moments in a system of two hadron species. In the present paper this method is extended to calculate all the second moments in a system with arbitrary number of hadron species. Special linear combinations of the second moments are introduced. These combinations are presented in terms of single-particle variables and can be found experimentally from the event-by-event averaging. The mathematical problem is then reduced to solving a system of linear equations. The effect of incomplete particle identification is fully eliminated from the final results.
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@article{arxiv.1106.4473,
title = {Identity Method for Particle Number Fluctuations and Correlations},
author = {M. I. Gorenstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4473},
year = {2011}
}
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11 pages