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Unified description of multiplicity distributions of final-state particles produced in collisions at high energies
Abstract The paper presents a modelling description to multiplicity distributions of final-state particles measured in different collision systems at different center-of-mass energies. As examples distributions of charged particles (hadrons) measured in e + e − , pp, p p ¯ , and e + p collisions are presented and good agreement between the calculation and the data is found. Meanwhile, distributions of final-state particles produced in proton and heavy ion induced nuclear collisions are included in the framework of the unified description. The basis of the calculations is a weight sum of different Erlang distributions. The model assumption is that many sources of emitted particles are formed in collisions. Each source contributes multiplicity distribution like a radioactive object.
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Singly and Doubly Charged Projectile Fragments in Nucleus-Emulsion Collisions at Dubna Energy in the Framework of the Multi-Source Model *
The multiplicity distributions of projectile fragments emitted in interactions of different nuclei with emulsion are studied by using a multi-source model. Our calculated results show that the projectile fragments can be described by the model and each source contributes an exponential distribution. As the weighted sum of the folding result of many exponential distributions, a multi-component Erlang distribution is used to describe the experimental data. The relationship between the height (or width) of the distribution and the mass of the incident projectile, as well as the dependence of projectile fragments on target groups, are investigated too.
120712528
Alpha emission in krypton–emulsion collisions at 1.7A GeV
Abstract The multiplicity and transverse momentum distributions of alpha projectile fragments emitted in nucleus–nucleus collisions at high energies are investigated. The results calculated by the two-source model are in agreement with the experimental data of krypton–emulsion collisions at 1.7 A  GeV.
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Angular Distributions of Target Fragments in Magnesium-Emulsion Collisions at High Energy
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ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF TARGET BLACK FRAGMENTS IN NUCLEUS NUCLEUS COLLISIONS AT HIGH ENERGY
The experimental results of space, azimuthal, and projected angular distributions of target black fragments produced in silicon-emulsion collisions at 4.5A GeV/c (the Dubna energy) are reported. A multi-source ideal gas model is suggested to describe the experimental angular distributions. The Monte Carlo calculated results are in agreement with the experimental data.
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Particle production in Au–Au collisions at RHIC energies
Abstract An overlapping cylinder model (OCM) is introduced in this Letter which considers three components: the longitudinal flow, transverse flow and the temperature. A comparison of our model calculations in terms of pseudorapidity distributions with the most recent experiments is presented. To describe the experimental data at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) energies ( s NN =130 and 200 GeV), a relative strong longitudinal flow and two partly overlapping cylinders are needed in the model. The difference between the different centrality events is described by the contribution of leading protons. The other parameter values do not depend on the centrality. The calculated results of the overlapping cylinder model are in agreement with the experimental data at the RHIC energies.
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Transverse Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles and Spatial Shapes of Interacting Events in Pb-Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV
The transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged
particles produced in Pb-Pb collisions with different centrality intervals at center-of-mass
energy per nucleon pair  TeV have been analyzed by using the improved
multisource thermal model in which the whole interacting system and then the sources
are described by the Tsallis statistics. The modelling results are in agreement with experimental data of the ALICE Collaboration. The rapidity distributions of charged particles are obtained according to the extracted parameter values. The shapes of interacting
events (the dispersion plots of charged particles) are given in the momentum, rapidity,
velocity, and coordinate spaces. Meanwhile, the event shapes in different spaces consisted
by different transverse quantities and longitudinal quantities are presented.
1752055
On transverse momentum event–by–event fluctuations in string hadronic models
Abstract. Transverse momentum event–by–event fluctuations are studied within the string–hadronic model of high energy nuclear collisions, LUCIAE. Data on non–statistical $p_T$ fluctuations in p+p interactions are reproduced. Fluctuations of similar magnitude are predicted for nucleus–nucleus collisions, in contradiction to the preliminary NA49 results. The introduction of a string clustering mechanism (Firecracker Model) leads to a further, significant increase of $p_T$ fluctuations for nucleus–nucleus collisions. Secondary hadronic interactions, as implemented in LUCIAE, cause only a small reduction of $p_T$ fluctuations.
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New results for hadronic collisions in the framework of the Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Theory
Abstract We recently proposed a new approach to high energy nuclear scattering, which treats hadronic collisions in a sophisticated way. Demanding theoretical consistency as a minimal requirement for a realistic model, we provide a solution for the energy conservation, screening problems and identical elementary interactions, the so-called “Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Theory” including enhanced diagrams. We can now present some of our results for SPS and RHIC energies.
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Preliminary design of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission, will survey the entire sky in four bands from 3.3 to 23 microns with a sensitivity 1000 times greater than the IRAS survey. The WISE survey will extend the Two Micron All Sky Survey into the thermal infrared and will provide an important catalog for the James Webb Space Telescope. Using 10242 HgCdTe and Si:As arrays at 3.3, 4.7, 12 and 23 microns, WISE will find the most luminous galaxies in the universe, the closest stars to the Sun, and it will detect most of the main belt asteroids larger than 3 km. The single WISE instrument consists of a 40 cm diamond-turned aluminum afocal telescope, a two-stage solid hydrogen cryostat, a scan mirror mechanism, and reimaging optics giving 5" resolution (full-width-half-maximum). The use of dichroics and beamsplitters allows four color images of a 47'x47' field of view to be taken every 8.8 seconds, synchronized with the orbital motion to provide total sky coverage with overlap between revolutions. WISE will be placed into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit on a Delta 7320-10 launch vehicle. The WISE survey approach is simple and efficient. The three-axis-stabilized spacecraft rotates at a constant rate while the scan mirror freezes the telescope line of sight during each exposure. WISE is currently in its Preliminary Design Phase, with the mission Preliminary Design Review scheduled for July, 2005. WISE is scheduled to launch in mid 2009; the project web site can be found at www.wise.ssl.berkeley.edu.
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Multi-component Erlang distribution of final-state particles produced in high energy collisions
A unified formula on multiplicity distributions of final-state particles is studied in this paper to describe a variety of experimental data including multiplicity, mass, transverse mass, excitation energy, transverse energy, and transverse momentum distributions. It is assumed that the sources of final-state particles are subjected to the multi-source thermal model and the contributions of sources meet the Erlang distribution. Further the validity of the unified formula in descriptions of different distributions is tested. Experimental data of proton-antiproton $$(p\overline{p}),$$ positron–proton (e+p), electron-proton (e−p), and nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions are analyzed and found that the distributions of mentioned quantities can be described by the multi-component Erlang distribution.