Towards a fractal approach to hadronization: evidence for stability, stationarity and scaling in hadron-production processes

Liu Qin

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 338, issue 1, 36-43

Abstract: It is pointed out that the concepts and methods introduced by Bachelier and by Mandelbrot to Finance and Economics can be used to examine the fluctuations observed in high-energy hadron-production processes. Theoretical arguments and experimental evidences are presented which show that the relative variations of hadron-numbers between successive rapidity intervals are non-Gaussian stable random variables, which exhibit stationarity and scaling. The implications of the obtained results are discussed.

Keywords: Fluctuations; Stability; Stationarity; Scaling; Fractals; Hadron-production; Hadronization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.021

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