Momentum spectrum of hadronic secondaries in the multiperipheral model

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Science
Department Physics
Creator DeTar, Carleton
Title Momentum spectrum of hadronic secondaries in the multiperipheral model
Date 1971-01
Description Motivated by a simplified multiperipheral model, we formulate a general qualitative description of the momentum spectrum of secondaries, resulting from a collision of two hadrons at high energies. Arguing from two fundamental multiperipheral concepts, (a) that transverse momenta are limited and (b) that distant particles on the multiperipheral chain are uncorrelated, we predict that at sufficiently high incident energies, the momentum spectrum of particle X in the reaction a ± b → X + anything, when presented in the variables pi and y = sinh-1[pll(pi2±mx2)½], develops a central plateau in the y dependence, which elongates and flattens to a value that is normalized b y the total cross section as the incident energy increases. Moreover, it is shown that the resultant particle density distribution is consistent with the hypothesis of limiting fragmentation. We contrast this description with the predictions of the two-fireball model, the isobar-pionization model, and the statistical thermodynamical model.
Type Text
Publisher American Physical Society
Journal Title Physical Review D
Volume 3
Issue 1
First Page 128
Last Page 144
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.3.128
citatation_issn 0556-2821
Subject Secondaries; Multiperipheral model; Fireballs
Subject LCSH Collisions (Nuclear physics); Particles (Nuclear physics); Hadrons; Baryons; Regge theory; Scattering (Physics)
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation DeTar, C. (1971). Momentum spectrum of hadronic secondaries in the multiperipheral model. Physical Review D, 3(1), 128-44.
Rights Management (c) American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.3.128
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