Transverse Momentum Fluctuations from Clustering and Percolation of Strings

2003/08/01 by J. Dias de Deus, A. Rodrigues, de Deus, J. Dias +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0308011

4 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

Transverse momentum fluctuations can be understood as resulting from clustering of strings or partons. Data allows to distinguish clustering without percolation, from clustering with percolation. Percolation is clearly favored by data.

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