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L]~TT]~R:E AL I~UOVO CIMENTO VOL. 11, N. 14 7 D i c e m b r e 1974

Geometrical Interpretation of Hadronic Collision at High Energy.

G. CECCHET (*), R . D O L F I N I a n d F . IMPELLIZZERI

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( r i c e v u t o 1'8 Lugl io 1974)

I n v i e w of a c o m p o u n d s t r u c t u r e of t h e h a d r o n two f e a t u r e s r equ i r e p a r t i c u l a r con- s i d e r a t i o n in h i g h - e n e r g y i n t e r a c t i o n processes :

i) t h e r e is no e x p e r i m e n t a l r e su l t w h i c h p r o v e s t h a t t h e poss ib le h a d r o n costi- t u e n t s (quarks , p a t t o n or w h a t e v e r } ex i s t r ea l ly in t h e f inal s t a t e ;

ii) t h e n o r m a l i z e d t opo log ica l cross-sect ions

(1) : _ ~n ~ ffn ~ n

n = final cha rged m u l t i p l i c i t y ,

a r e we l l desc r ibed b y a c o m p o u n d p r o b a b i l i t y d i s t r i b u t i o n of t h e t y p e (x.A)

(2) o'. = X P(iV) Qiv(~), iV

w h e r e P ( N ) a n d Qiv(n) a re p r o b a b i l i t y dens i ty f u n c t i o n s . W e i n t e r p r e t t h e f o r m e r as t h e p r o b a b i l i t y of p r o d u c i n g iV com pl ex c o m p o u n d s (clusters , f i reballs etc.) a n d t h e l a t t e r as t h e p r o b a b i l i t y for t h e w h o l e se t of c o m p o u n d s to decay in to n pa r t i c les .

W e assume, in a g r e e m e n t w i t h i), t h a t in a n y e l e m e n t a r y i n t e r a c t i o n t h e on ly way to p r o d u c e c o m p o u n d s is t r o u g h (~ a n n i h i l a t i o n )~ of c o s t i t u e n t s of t h e or ig ina l h a d r o n s . F o l l o w i n g t h i s hypo t he s i s , l e t b e K ( s ) t h e a v e r a g e n u m b e r of eos t i t uen t s t h a t m a y come i n t o i n t e r a c t i o n in a h a d r o n s c a t t e r i n g a t s q u a r e d c.m. ene rgy S, a n d we t a k e t h i s K as a p a r a m e t e r of t h e model .

(*) On leave of absence from the University of Pavia. (1) A. G I o v A ~ I : Nuovo Cimento, 1@A, 713 (1972). (2) ~r LE BELLAC, J. L. MEUI~IER and G. PT.AUT: Nice University prcprint NTH 73/3. (8) D. LEVY: Nucl. Phys., 59 B, 583 (1973). (4) H. B. NIELSE~ and P. OLESE~: Phys. Left., 43 B, 37 (1973).

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If p is the probabil i ty for an annihi la t ion into a compound, the probabil i ty to pro- duce N compounds is expressed by the binomial formula

(3) P ( N ) = ( K N ) p z ~ ( 1 - - p ) x -~ ,

where clearly the number of produced compounds N is never bigger than the number K of the interacting components.

If we assume the usual hypothesis tha t the number of decay products n i of each compound is Poisson distributed around a mean number /~, i.e.

(4) Q ~ ( n ~ ) = nil

and sum over i, equations (3) and (4) give the following probabil i ty distribution ( a = number of ini t ial charged particles):

(5) , & (Nt,) ~-~/K\

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Another way to express formula (5) is

(5% a, - - - (N"-~)o, (n--a)'

where (N~-a}a represents the (n - -~ ) - th moment of the distribution

(6) G(N) = F(K + 1)

F(N+ 1)F(K--N + 1) (p exp [--,u])N (1 _p)~-~v.

We take the first three moments of the experimental multiplicity distributions as estimators of the theoretical parameters K, p, #, whose behaviour as a function of the incident momentum P~:b is given in Fig. 1.

The behaviour of the parameter p does not show anything surprising, while the mean number /~ of the charged particles produced in a single compound decay is definitely constant (~ 3). This fact seems to agree with what is expected from POKOl~Sl~I and VA~ HOVE (6) if we interpret # as the proper average number of charged particles in a cluster. The third parameter K shows the remarkable characteristic of a steep raise at the highest analysed energy. Predictions of formula (5) are compared in Fig. 2 with

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I t should be po in ted out t h a t t he mean number of compounds ~ = pK grows wi th energy more s lowly than t h e ave rage charged mul t ip l ic i ty , as one can see in Fig. 3.

I n conclusion we th ink t h a t an in te res t ing fea tu re of th is mode l is the ab i l i ty of ex t r ac t i ng parameters , l ike K, wh ich in pr incip le can descr ibe t he s t ruc ture of t he hadron .

As a m a t t e r of fact , any h in t on the avai lable da t a could be too p rematu re , a l t hough few m o r e po in t s a t energies above 400 GeV should be able to give us a s ta r t ing po in t for a t e n t a t i v e descr ipt ion of t h e hadron s t ructure .

W e should l ike to t hank A. G~OVANNINI and S. RATTI for the i r he lpful cr i t ic ism and suppor t .