Evidence for the Systematic Behavior of Charged-Prong Multiplicity Distributions in High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

1 April 1973

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

Vol. 7 (7) , 2073-2079
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.7.2073

Abstract

Evidence is presented to support the onset in the 50-303-GeV/c region of incident momentum of the asymptotic prediction of Koba, Nielsen, and Olesen regarding the scaling behavior of the charged-prong multiplicity distribution in proton-proton collisions. Lower-energy data, at 19 and 28.5 GeV/c, are found not to demonstrate this behavior. The impact of this observation on the Mueller-Regge viewpoint is discussed.

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