Big Hadron Model: A Unified Description of Multiple Production off Hadrons and Nuclei

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Abstract
The collective tube model (CTM) for hadron-nucleus collisions is reformulated with emphasis on (i) the distinction between the leading particle component and the central pionization component, (ii) the definition and the use of the universality hypothesis, (iii) the A-dependence of the leading particle effects and (iv) a gross correspondence between hadron-nucleus collisions with a fixed number of nuclear fragments and hadron-hadron collisions at a fixed impact parameter. The mean multiplicities and the rapidity distributions of relativistic charged particles are analyzed in some detail. Apparent difficulties of the CTM claimed recently by many authors are thereby eliminated.