Oscillations in Modified Combinants of Hadronic Multiplicity Distributions

Oscillations in modified combinants ($C_j$s) have been of interest to multiparticle production mechanisms since the 1990s. Recently, there has been a discussion on how these oscillations can be reproduced by compounding a binomial distribution with a negative binomial distribution. In this work, we...

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Main Author: P. Agarwal, H. W. Ang, Z. Ong, A. H. Chan, C. H. Oh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2022-08-01
Series:SciPost Physics Proceedings
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.10.004
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Summary:Oscillations in modified combinants ($C_j$s) have been of interest to multiparticle production mechanisms since the 1990s. Recently, there has been a discussion on how these oscillations can be reproduced by compounding a binomial distribution with a negative binomial distribution. In this work, we explore a stochastic branching model based on a simple interaction term $\lambda\overline{\psi}\phi\psi$ for partons and propose a hadronization scheme to arrive at the final multiplicity distribution. We study the effects that compounding our model with a binomial distribution has on $C_j$s and explore its physical implications. We find that there is a significant difference in the oscillations in $C_j$s between high energy $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ scattering that our model can reproduce.
ISSN:2666-4003