Multiplicity fluctuations in hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions and percolation of strings

2004/12/15 by Pedro Brogueira, Jorge Dias de Deus
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Acta Phys.Polon. B36 (2005) 307-314 · 13 pages, 5 eps figures, latex

arxiv created 2004/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We argue that recent NA49 results on multiparticle distributions and fluctuations, as a function of the number of participant nucleons, suggest that percolation plays an important role in particle production at high densities.

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