Fluctuations and entropy indices of QCD parton showers

1 December 1996

journal article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 54 (11) , 6674-6679
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.54.6674

Abstract

The branching processes in parton showers are studied in perturbative QCD for both quark and gluon jets. The emphasis is on the nature of fluctuations of both the parton multiplicities and the spatial patterns of the final states. Effective measures of such fluctuations are calculated from the data obtained by Monte Carlo simulations. The entropy indices are used to characterize chaoticity. Both running and fixed couplings are considered. The fixed coupling case is used to study the onset of chaos. Implications of the results are discussed.

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