Multiplicity in pp and AA collisions: The same power law from energy-momentum constraints in string production (original) (raw)
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The Ω/Ω ratio originating from string decays is predicted to be larger than unity in proton proton interactions at SPS energies (E lab =160 GeV). The anti-omega dominance increases with decreasing beam energy. This surprising behavior is caused by the combinatorics of quark-antiquark production in small and low-mass strings. Since this behavior is not found in a statistical description of hadron production in proton proton collisions, it may serve as a key observable to probe the hadronization mechanism in such collisions.
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Acta Physica Polonica B, Proceedings Supplement, 2013
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Limiting fragmentation in heavy-ion collisions and percolation of strings
Physical Review C, 2007
The observed limiting fragmentation of charged particle distributions in heavy ion collisions is difficult to explain as it does not apply to the proton spectrum itself. On the other hand, string percolation provides a mechanism to regenerate fast particles, eventually compensating the rapidity shift (energy loss) of the nucleons. However a delicate energy-momentum compensation is required, and in our framework we see no reason for limiting fragmentation to be exact. A prediction, based on percolation arguments, is given for the charged particle density in the full rapidity interval at LHC energy ( √ s = 5500 GeV ).
The European Physical Journal C, 2008
In the framework of percolation of strings, the transverse momentum distributions in AA and hh collisions at all centralities and energies follow a universal behavior. The width of these distributions is related to the width of the distribution of the size of the clusters formed from the overlapping of the produced strings. The difference between the distributions for baryons and mesons originates in the fragmentation of clusters of several strings which enhance the particles with higher number of constituents. The results agree with SPS and RHIC data. The predictions for LHC show differences for baryons compared with RHIC. At LHC energies we obtain also a high pt suppression for pp high multiplicity events compared with pp minimum bias.
Proceedings of XXII International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems — PoS(Baldin ISHEPP XXII)
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The European Physical Journal C, 2002
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